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CATALOGUE 189 ‘On the move’ A fine selection of Expeditions, Travel & Voyages

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BANTAM

1 AA, P(ierre) J(ean) B(aptiste C(harles) Robidé van der. De groote Bantamsche opstand in het midden der vorige eeuw, bewerkt naar meerdendeels onuitgegeven bescheiden uit het oud-koloniaal archief met drie officiëele documenten als bijlagen. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1881. Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). 127 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00

First book edition, first published in B.K.I. - Bantam near the western end of Java was a strategically important site and formerly a major trading city with a secure harbour at the mouth of Banten River that provided a navigable passage for light craft into the island's interior. Dealing with the rebellion in Bantam including the memorials by the directors Julius Valentein Stein van Gollonesse (1734) and Willem Hendrik van Ossenberch (1761).

CARIB INDIANS

2 AHLBRINCK, Willem Gerardus. Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, behelzend taal, zeden en gewoonten dezer Indianen. Amsterdam, Koninlijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1931. Original printed wrappers (spine sl. damaged). With 160 pages with drawings by E. la Rose and photographic illustrations (some in colours). XIV,555 pp. € 375,00 € 375,00 Standard reference work on the Carib Indians living near the Marowijne/Maroni River in Suriname. - Scarce.

CHINA

3 (ALEXANDRE, NOëL). Conformita delle cerimonie Chinesi, colla idolatria Greca, e Romana. In conferma dell' apologia de Domenicane missionari della China. Colonia, appresso gli Heredi di Cornelio d'Egmond, 1701. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, autograph title to spine. 158 pp. € 650,00

First published in 1700. - 'The eminent Dominican theologian of the Sorbonne, Noel Alexandre (1639-1724), led the attack in France on the Jesuits' attitude towards the Chinese rites. He published an attack upon the Jesuit position in which he endeavours to show the similarities between the Chinese ceremonies and the idolatrous rites of the Greeks and Romans' (Lach & Van Kley III, p.430). - Age-browned, otherwise fine. Cordier, BS, col. 880; Lust 883 (French ed.); Walraven 128 (French ed.); Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 237 (French ed.).

MAROCCO

4 AMICIS, Edmondo de. Marocco. Uit het Italiaansch vertaald door D. Lodeesen. Leiden, P. van Santen, 1877. Contemporary half cloth (sl. damaged). 315,(1) pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First published in Italian Marocco. Milano 1876. - The author accompanied the then Italian Minister, the late Commendatore Stefano Scovasso, on his embassy to the Sultan. It is of more literary than geographical value (Playfair & Brown 1230).

5 AMSTERDAM - ENKHUIZEN. De Raad der stad Amsterdam, en die van Enkhuizen, in aanmerking genomen hebbende, de noodzakelijkheid, dat 'er eenige veranderingen worden gemaakt in de Vragt-lysten, voor de schippers van het veer, tusschen beide steden ... Zo is het, dat welgemelde regeeringen hebben goedgevonden ... op nieuw te arresteeren ... de hier navolgende Bepaalingen, voor de schippers en bestellers van het voorsz. veer, waar na dezelven zich voortaan zullen moeten reguleeren. Amsterdam, W. Wijnands, 1805. 2 broadsides with coat of arms of Amsterdam and Enkhuizen. € 275,00 Detailed alphabetical manifest of products and animals with prices, printed in three columns. - (Small hole in blank margin rep.).

Vademecum for travellers in China

6 BALL, J. DYER. Things Chinese or notes connected with China. 4th edition, revised and enlarged. Hongkong, Kelly & Walsh, 1903. Original pictorial yellow cloth gilt (sl. damaged; extremities of spine sl. dam.). XII,816 pp. € 75,00 € 75,00 First published in 1892. - An alphabetically arranged vademecum for travellers, written by the formerly British Consul at Foochow. The author, born in Canton, (1847 - 1919) was considered the most knowledgeable European speaker of Cantonese of his day.

The harbours and shores of England, Scotland and Wales

7 BARTLETT, William Henry. - BEATTIE, William. The ports, harbours, watering-places, and coast scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by views taken on the spot, by W.H. Bartlett; with descriptions by William Beattie. London, George Virtue, 1842. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary richly decorated gilt morocco, rebacked with the original gilt spines laid down (rubbed), a.e.g. With frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria, woodcut of Blackwall and 125 steelengravings (incl. 2 frontispieces and title-pages). (4),190; (4),155 pp. € 475,00

This is the revised, much enlarged edition of the original work issued by Charles Tilt in 1836. - The plates present the harbours and shores of England, Scotland and Wales in the most dramatic, picturesque, or romantic light possible. Depictions of port cities range from stormy scenes of wreckage to calm sunny days. The romantic views by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) are among the best produced in the 19th century. The plate of the lighthouse of Berwick in volume one is shown as title- vignette in volume two. William Beattie (1793-1875) wrote the descriptions. - (Some light foxing as usual). Andres 353.

Early American antislavery work

8 BENEZET, Anthony. Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants. With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects. New edition. London, J. Phillips, 1788. Original boards (sl rubbed). With woodcut title vignette. XV,131,(1) pp. € 495,00 € 495,00 First published in Philadelphia in 1771. - Contains an inquiry into the rise and progress of the West-African slave trade, 1442 to 1771, including a general account of Guinea, the Ivory-, Gold- and Slave-Coast, Benin, Kongo and Angola and chapters on the slave-trade by the Portuguese and English, and chapters on the treatment of the slaves in the North American colonies and in the West Indies. Benezet (1713-1784), a French- born Quaker and Philadelphia resident, was one of the chief early anti-slave trade agitators in the New World, his views influenced those of English abolitionists William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. An important, very early, American antislavery work. Cardinall 377; Sabin 4689, Ragatz p.479; Hogg 1734; Work p.257; Afro-Americana 1084.

BENGAL

9 BOLTS, Willem. État civil, politique et commerçant, du Bengale; ou histoire des conquêtes & de l'administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. La Haye, Gosse, 1775. 2 volumes in 1. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, original gilt spine mounted). With 2 engraved frontispieces and large folding engraved . XL,222; 240 pp. € 375,00 First French edition; first published in English Civil, political, and commercial state of Bengal. London, 1773. - Willem Bolts (ca. 1740-1808) was a Dutch adventurer who entered the English East Company in Bengal, and got into trouble for private trading in the name of the East India Company. The government of Benares sent him off to England as a prisoner. He sought legal action against them, but ruined himself in the proces. This vigorous exchange of views developed into a bitter controversy and played an important part in fuelling the extensive public debate that was taking place on the subject of the East India Company's operations in India. The French translation was made by Jean Nicolas Demeunier. - Pasted in is a letter in French, dated 1776, dealing with the ceding of Benares by the Rajah to the English East India Company. Cox I, p.299; Chadenat 2791.

ROBINSONADE

10 BOUSSENARD, Louis. Les Robinsons de la Guyane. Paris, La Librairie Illustrée, (1892). 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. With many wood-engravings after Férat by D. Dumont. 632 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 Part I: Le tigre blanc; Part II: Le secret de l'or, Part III: Les mysteres de la foret vierge. Louis Henri Boussenard (1847 - 1910) was a French author of adventure novels. - A nice copy.,

One of the most popular and best-selling Victorian travel writters

11 BRASSEY, Annie. Voyage d'une famille autour du monde a bord de son yacht Le Sunbeam .. traduit de l'Anglais par J. Butler. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, (1878). 8vo. Original decorated red cloth gilt, a.e.g. With 6 coloured and 120 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XIV,360 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First French edition; first published in London in 1878: A voyage in the Sunbeam: our home in the Ocean for eleven months. - Voyage from England to South America, South Sea islands, Japan, China, Ceylon and Suez. One of the most popular and best- selling Victorian travel writters was Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887), who circumnavigated the globe with her wealthy husband, Thomas Brassey, in his schooner, the Sunbeam, and recorded the journey in A voyage in the Sunbeam, first published in 1878, frequently reprinted, and translated into five languages. It included an account of Lady Annie's diversion overland with her children to visit Cairo and the pyramids while the Sunbeam passed through the Suez Canal (Tuson, Western women travelling East, p.199). - Some foxing as usual otherwise fine. Robinson, Wayward women, p. 203/204; Theakstone p.32.

ARMY UNIFORMS

12 BRUNINGS, Peter Frederik. Onze krijgsmacht. Met bijschriften. 's Gravenhage, Charles Ewings, (1886). 8vo. Original red cloth gilt (soiled; loose). With 26 chromolithographed plates. 108 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 The fine coloured plates depict Adjudant en ordonnans- officier des konings, Generale staf, Militaire administratie, Geneeskundige dienst, Schutterij, Grenadiers, Jagers, Grenadiers en jagers, Stafmuziekant, Infanterie, Tamboer, Huzaren, Veld- en vesting- artillerie, Rijdende artillerie, Genie, Koninklijke marechaussees, Koninklijke militaire academie, Invaliden Bronbeek, Invaliden-Leiden-pupillen, Infanterie Nederlandsch-Indië, Inlandsche en Afrikaansche troepen, Koninklijke Nederlandsche marine and Mariniers. Lipperheide Qg 8; Hiler p.121; Colas 464.

THE DANISH OVERSEAS

13 BRØNDSTED, Johannes. Ed.. Vore gamle tropekolonier. Ved G. Olsen, K. Struwe, A. Rasch, G. Nørregaard, J. Bro-Jørgensen, J. Vibaek, Fr. Skrubbeltrang. København, Westermann, 1952-53. 2 volumes. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed. With many illustrations (several in colours). € 275,00 € 275,00 Excellent survey on the history of the Danish in the East and West Indies and West Africa. Volume I: The Danish in Tranquebar, India 1616- 1845 and on the Goldcoast, West Africa; Volume II: The Danish in the West Indies, St. Thomas, St. Jan, St. Croix, 1702-1917. - A very nice copy.

The Ganges delta, the city of Calcutta and Banaras

14 BUYERS, William. Recollections of Northern India; with observations on the origin, customs, and moral sentiments of the Hindoos, and remarks on the country, and principal places on the Ganges, &c. London, John Snow, 1848. Original embossed green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 548 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 First edition. - Describes the general character of the Ganges delta, the city of Calcutta and Banaras, its inhabitants, European and native society, missionary and educational institutions, as well as tiger hunting and the opium trade. 'He offers uniquely interesting analysis of the state and impact of the Christian missionary societies in India' (Riddick 80). - (Age-browned).

CHINA – LISBOA AND VICE VERSA

15 CALDEIRA, Carlos José. Apontamentos d'uma viagem de Lisboa a' China e da China a Lisboa. Lisboa, G.M. Martins, 1852-53. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spines gilt. 423; 351 pp. € 650,00 First edition. - The author visited Malta, Egypt, the Red Sea, Ceylon, Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, and China.

A fine set.

SUDAN

16 CASATI, Gaetano. Zehn Jahre in Äquatoria und die Rückkehr mit Emin Pascha. Nach dem italienischen Originalmanuscript ins Deutsche übersetzt von K. von Reinhardstöttner. Bamberg, C.C. Buchner, 1891. 2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth (extremities of spines sl. dam.). With coloured frontispiece, 4 folding maps (1 with small tears) and ca. 150 illustrations and plates (some in colours). VIII,340; 365 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First German edition; first edition was published in Milan in 1891Dieci anni in Equatoria. - Ascending the Nile into southern Sudan, Casati (1838-1902) reached Meshra 'er Req on the Bahr el Ghazal tributary in 1880. In 1887 he discovered Ruwenzoni just 4 months before Stanley. He became Emin Pasha's companion, a German physician and explorer whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. He actively assisted him in his scientific work supplying most of the information about the Unyoro and Lower Welle. An important first-hand account of Stanley's ill-fated Relief Expedition. Henze I, p.519-520; Kainbacher p.74; Howgego IV, C15.

Everyday life of China

17 CHINEESCHE GESCHIEDENIS, behelzende de gevallen van den heer Tieh-Chung-U en de jongvrouw Shuey-Ping-Sin. Nevens het kort begrip van een Chineesch tooneelspel, eenige Chineesche dichtstukjes, en eene verzameling van spreekwoorden der Chineezen. oorspronglyk in de Chineesche taale beschreeven. Daar uit in't Engelsch overgezet .. Nu in't Nederduitsch vertaald .. Amsterdam, Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1767. Contemporary half calf (spine sl. dam.). With title- page printed in red and black and 4 engraved plates by R. Nuys. XXV,(3),628,(12) pp. € 1450,00 € 1.450,00 First Dutch edition. - The Chinese novel of romance and adventure Haoqui zhuan, translated from the English edition of Thomas Percy Hau kiou choaan, or the pleasing history, London 1761. It is the first important piece of Chinese imaginative literature to be published in Europe. Haoqiu zhuan gives an idea of the everyday life of China, which was neglected by the scholarly researches of the missionaries (Löwendahl 514). Also including a collection of Chinese poetry and proverbs. - Scarce. Cordier, B.S., col. 1755; Lust 1107.

FRENCH AFRICA

18 CHRISTIAN, Pierre. L'Afrique française. L'empire de Maroc et les déserts de Sahara. Conquêtes, victoires et découvertes des français, depuis la prise d'Alger jusqu'a nos jours. Paris, A. Barbier, (1846). 8vo. Contemporary half morocco. With steelengraved frontispiece, folding coloured map, several vignettes and 28 steelengraved plates (11 coloured). 500 pp. € 350,00 € 350,00

First edition. - 'This work is particularly interesting, as it contains a good account of the affair of the caves of Dahra, which created a great sensation in Europe at the time' (Playfair 1135). - (Foxed as usual). Playfair & Brown 691.

‘The founder of scientific polar exploration’

19 CHYDENIUS, Jacob Karl Emil. Svenska expeditionen till Spetsbergen år 1861 under ledning of Otto Torell. Stockholm, P.A. Sorstedt & Söner, 1865. Original embossed green cloth with gilt picture on front. With folding double-page panoramic view, folding map with inset maps, 15 (3 double- page) coloured lithographed plates by Abrah. Lundquist and 18 woodengravings in the text. (10),480 pp. € 350,00

First edition. - 'Torell's expedition of 1861 had been exceptionally succesful, despite all the obstacles presented by ice and weather. It was the first interdisciplinary polar expedition carried out by competent professional scientists. There is no exaggeration in saying that this enterprise initiated scientific polar exploration, and that Torell is rightly looked upon, not only as the 'father' of Swedish polar exploration, but as the founder of scientific polar exploration in general' (Liljequist, High latitudes, p.38). The Arctic navigator Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) participated in this successful Spitbergen expedition. - (Foxed as usual). Arctic Bibl. 3171.

EGYPT

20 CLARK, Edward. Daleth or the homestead of the nations. Egypt illustrated. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Original pictorial cloth gilt (original spine laid down), top edge gilt. With lithographed title, 15 lithographed plates (4 tinted and 8 chromo-lithographs), and numerous wood-engravings. X,(2),289 pp. € 85,00 € 85,00 First edition. - Daleth, the Hebrew letter signifying 'door', is for Clark (1838-1910) also the symbol of Egypt. Concentrating on the historical aspects of Egypt to show how it is important from a biblical/historical perspective, he tells a good story, though it is a bit light on the personal narrative site (Kalfatoviv 0561). Many of the illustrations are taken from photographs, some from trophies common to all pilgrims, and others repeat the outline which Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson copied from the tombs.

KHALKHA MONGOLS

21 CONSTEN, Hermann. Weideplätze der Mongolen im Reiche der Chalcha. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1919-20. 2 volumes. Original pictorial boards (spines discoloured). With 2 folding maps and 128 photographic plates. XII,303;VII,314 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 Hermann Consten (1878-1957 lived from 1929 till 1950 in Peking, from 1936 together with his wife Eleanor von Erdberg, both East Asian specialists. - Fine illustrated standard work. Cordier, B.S., col. 4297.

Dutch play on

22 COOL, Simon. Slavernij of de knecht heer over zijn meester. Oorspronkelijk tooneelspel in vijf bedrijven. Amsterdam, Erven H. van Munster & Zoon, 1860. Modern wrappers, original printed boards preserved. (8),96 pp. € 60,00 € 60,00 First edition. - Simon Cool (1804-1864) was member of the town-council of Amsterdam and member of parliament for the liberals. This play on slavery won the prize of the municipal theatre of Amsterdam on the occasion of the opening of this theatre in 1859. NNBW VIII,309.

FIGHT AGAINST THE TURKS

23 CRAMPRICH, Daniel Joannes. Memorie overgelevert aen d'Heeren Staten Generael, den 12 February, 1685. Door den Minister van Sijne Keyserlycke Majesteyt. (No pl.), 12 February, 1685. 4to. (4) pp. € 125,00 Request from Spain's ambassador Cramprich to the Dutch Republic for financial support to fight the Ottoman Turks. Knuttel 12373 (French edition only); Tiele 8230.

Greenland and the whaling industry

24 CRANZ, David. The history of Greenland: containing a description of the country, and his inhabitants: and particularly'a relation of the mission, carried on for above these thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that country. Translated from the High-Dutch. London, printed for the Brethern's Society, 1767. 2 volumes. Contemporary calf, gilt fillets round sides, spines gilt with morocco title-labels and modern volume-labels. With 2 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved plates. LIX,405; 497,(1) pp. € 975,00

First English edition, first published in Barby & Leipzig in 1765: Historie von Grönland. - Edited and in part translated by John Gambold (1711-71), the first consecrated English Moravian bishop. An accurate narrative by David Cranz (1723-1777), the historiographer of the Brethern; he stayed at Ny Hernnhut in Greenland, in 1761-62. With sections devoted to the establishment of the first Hernnhut or Moravian mission in Greenland, the nature, manners and customs of the inhabitants on the West coast on Davis Strait, whales and the whaling-industry in general, and the Eskimos. 'das vollständigste Gemälde von Grönland im 18. Jahrhundert, ein Werk, das auch heute noch mehr als nur historisches Interesse beanspruchen darf' (Henze I, p.751). - A fine set with engraved bookplate of E.M. Cox. Arctic Bibl. 3471; Chavanne 5633; Sabin 17417; Cox II, p.18.

THE GOLD COAST

25 CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en met eene inleiding vermeerderd door D.P.H.J. Weijtingh. Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Van der Haart, 1855. 2 volumes in 1. Later half leather. With large folding lithographed view of Elmina by W. Bartels. XVI,251; XIV,208 pp. € 275,00

Dutch translation of Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans. London 1853. - This Dutch edition has an introduction by D.P.H.J. Weijtingh, dealing with the history of the Dutch possessions on the coast. 'Cruikshank served in the area from 1834-1854 and was a member of the first Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, as well as the first Collector-General of the colony. The work offers insight into the judicial system, music, religion, dance, and social customs of the native people' (From the preface by K. A. Busia of the reprint of 1966 ). Cat. NHSM I, p.205; Gay 2865 (English ed.); Hess & Coger 6372 (English ed.); Cardinall 518 (English ed.); not in Tiele.

CUBA

26 CUBA. MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the supposed kidnapping of colored persons in the southern States for the purpose of selling them as slaves in Cuba. (Washington), 1866. 55 pp. - (Senate Ex. Doc., 39th Congress, 1st session). € 75,00 € 75,00

DAHOMEY

27 DALZEL, Archibald. The history of Dahomey, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes. London, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793. 4to. Later half calf, spine gilt. With folding engraved map after R. Norris, and 6 engraved plates by Chesham (one partly cut short and tipped in). XXXII,XXVI,(4),230 pp. € 1950,00 € 1.950,00

First edition. - Dalzel was the former governor at Whydah (now Quida, Benin), West-Africa, and at time of publication of the present work, governor at Cape-Coast-Castle. His official position enabled him opportunities of obtaining valuable and accurate information. Parts of the history are compiled from i.a. the memoirs of Robert Norris, who spent eighteen years in the African trade, and from the communications of Lionel Abson, Dalzel's successor as British governor at Whydah. 'His History was both a historical compilation and propaganda against the abolition of the slave trade. He argued that the slave trade saved African victims from human sacrifice and slaughter' (The Paolo Bianchi Collection 102). The plates are showing scenes with armed women with the King at their head going to war, a public procession of the King's women, victims for sacrifice, etc. - (Occasionally sl. foxed; small library stamp on title-page). Cardinall 396; Hogg 170; Work p.8.

ON THE WAY TO TIMBUKTU

28 DAVIDSON, John. Notes taken during travels in Africa. London, J.L. Cox and Sons, 1839. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (sl. rubbed). With lithographed frontispiece and 2 lithographed plates drawn by J.G. Wilkinson after John Davidson, printed by P. Gauri. (6),218 pp. € 2950,00 € 2.950,00

Privately printed; with armorial bookplate of James Liege Hulett. - John Davidson (1797-1836), an English adventurer, embarked at Falmouth on 1834, taking with him the freed slave Edward Donellan. On arrival at Tangier the British consul begged Davidson to give up his visit to Timbuktu on account of the tribal warfare being waged on the edge of the Sahara, but the explorer pressed on regardless. He arrived at Fez and left for the desert, passing through Marrakesh, and eventually reached the Wadi Num (Noun or Assaka). In the region of Tindouf he was shot dead and his possessions stolen. Donellan continued with the caravan to Timbuktu and was never heard of again. Davidson's letters and most of his journal found their way back to Britain and were privately published in 1839 (Howgego II, p.159). The fine plates depict two views of Wadnoon and one of the river Draha. - A fine copy. Playfair & Brown, 609.

FROM SOUTHERN RUSSIA TO THE CRIMEA

29 DEMIDOFF, Anatole de. Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837 .. Paris, Ernest Bourdin, 1840. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt with red morocco title-label to spine. With 1 page of sheet music, 24 plates mounted on India paper and many wood-engravings in the text by Denis Raffet. VI, 621,(3) pp. € 575,00 € 575,00 First edition. - This is the first part of Demidov's account of his mission in Russia and the Crimea, an account of the voyage itself. The scientific observations by Huot, Leveille, Rousseau and Nordmann were published in three volumes in 1842 (Atabey p. 181). Celebrated scientific expedition by count Anatoliy Nicolaevic Demidov (1812-1870) through southern Russia, Crimea, Hongary, Romania, and Turkey in the year 1837. With magnificent plates depicting topographical and military views, costumes and everyday scenes . - (Age- browned). - A fine copy. Catalogue Russica D297; Vicaire III, p.165.

SUPERSTITION IN CHINA

30 DORÉ, Henry. Manuel des superstitions Chinoises ou petit indicateur des superstitions les plus communes en Chine. 2me édition. Chang-Hai, L'Orphelinat de T'ou-sè-wè, 1936. Sm.8vo. Original cloth (sl. soiled). VII,221 pp. € 65,00 € 65,00 First published in 1926. - Une table alphabétique assez détaillée, sorte de lexique superstitieux, donne les caractères chinois et la romanisation des noms et expréssions communément usités en language païen. Elle permettra d'en trouver facilement le sens à la page indiquée (Préface).

‘The Javanese sketched in true daylight’

31 DOREN, Jean Baptist Jozef van. De Javaan in het ware daglicht geschetst. Benevens eenige inlichtingen over het binnenlandsch bestuur op Java. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders J. & H. van Langenhuysen, 1851. Original printed wrappers (sl. dam., backwrapper missing). With 2 woodengravings. (4),128 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 The author, Jean Baptist van Doren, served in Indonesia in the Oost Indische Kavallerie between 1821 and 1839, and his knowledge of the country provided him with material for a whole string of books which were published during the 1850s and 1860s. Among these was De Javaan in het ware daglicht geschetst (The Javanese sketched in true daylight) (Bastin-Brommer p.142). Cat. KITLV p. 11.

SEAPORTS OF THE WORLD

32 DORN, Alexander. (Ed.). Die Seehäfen des Weltverkehrs. Wien, Alexander Dorn, 1891-1892. 2 volumes. Contemporary half morocco, spines decorated. With 389 woodengraved seaport plans and views. (12),1100; (8),828 pp € 175,00 € 175,00 Volume I: Häfen Europas sowie der asiatischen und afrikanischen Küsten des Mittelmeerbeckens. Volume II: Häfen ausserhalb Europas und des Mittelmeerbeckens. - Fine.

Israelites and Mecca

33 DOZY, R(einhart Pieter Anne). De Israëlieten te Mekka van Davids tijd tot in de vijfde eeuw onzer tijdrekening. , A.C. Kruseman, 1864. 8vo. Modern boards. With folding lithographed table. VI,214 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00

First edition. - History of the Israelites and Mecca, written by the Leiden scholar Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (1820- 1883). This Orientalist marked the end of a specific period in Islamology in The Netherlands, the next phase was the religious historical one, which was dominated entirely by Snouck Hurgronje (Boland & Farjon, Islam in Indonesia, p.13).

THE NDIKI OF CAMEROON

34 DUGAST, Idelette. Monographie de la tribu des Ndiki (Banen du Cameroun). Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1955-59. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With numerous maps and illustrations. XXIV,824; XX,635 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 Comprehensive study of one of the Banen tribes, the Ndiki, who inhabit the mountainous area to the south of the Bamileke.

Manual on naval architecture

35 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, (Henri-Louis). Élémens de l'architecture navale, ou traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux. 2me edition revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'auteur. Paris, Charles- Antoine Jombert, 1758. 4to. Later mottled calf. With engraved frontispiece, 10 engraved vignettes after Nicolas Ozanne and 24 engravings on 23 folding plates. XLIV,484 pp. € 2750,00 € 2.750,00 First published in Paris in 1752. - The first training manuel for aspiring naval constructors written by the founder of the school for students of naval engineering and architecture at the Louvre in 1741. - (Small library-stamp on title-page). - A fine copy of this first practical manual on naval architecture. Cat. NHSM II, p.748; Polak 2860: cette seconde édition est plus recherchée, elle comporte le chapitre X, qui ne figure pas dans la première.

DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY (VOC).

36 Historiesch verhaal, van het begin, voortgang en teegenwoordigen staat der koophandel van de Generaale Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Uit vele voornaame historie schryvers der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en anderen, by een verzamelt en naar de rang der jaaren en gebeurtenisse in order geschikt; en voorzien met de voornaamste verbonden, welke zy zedert haar eerste begin, met veele Indische en Europische vorsten heeft aangegaan; als meede met alle de octroyen, en ordonnantien, welke, van tyd tot tyd aan haar zyn verleent. Arnhem, Wouter Troost, 1768-72. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with red and green title-labels on spines, with green morocco labels on covers with the VOC monogram. With woodcut printer's device on title-pages. XVI,564; VIII,587,(1) pp. € 1850,00 € 1.850,00

First edition. - History of the starting in 1602 when the VOC gained the monopoly of trade from the Dutch Republic with Asia and expanded to become the greatest shipping and trading company in the world during the 17th and 18th centuries. Through the trade in pepper and cinnamon and later on, in products such as silk, tea and porcelain the VOC gave the Netherlands a period of unprecedented economic and cultural prosperity. - A fine set. Landwehr, VOC, 1490; not in Cat. NHSM.

INDIGENOUS RACES OF INDONESIA

37 EERDE, Johan Christiaan van. ( Red.). De volken van Nederlandsch Indië in monographieën. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1920-1921. 2 volumes. 4to. Original decorated cloth. With coloured frontispiece, 3 maps and numerous photographic illustrations and plates. 319; 317 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 Ethnological/anthropological classic on the Indonesian population. Contributions by: H.T. Damsté, M. Joustra, J.P. KLeiweg de Zwaan, T.J. Bezemer, N. Adriani, R.M. Noto Soeroto, J.D.H. Beckering, etc. - A fine set.

38 EIDEM, O. & O. LÜTKEN. Vor sømagts historie en populaerhistorisk fremdstilling paa grundlag af J.C. Tuxens den Dansk-Norske sømagts historie. København, Ernst Bojesen, (1903). Original decorated cloth. With many illustrations. 864 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00

Natural history of the corallines

39 ELLIS, John. Natuurlyke historie van de koraal-gewassen, en andere dergelyke zee-lighamen, die men gemeenelyk vind op de kusten van Groot-Brittanien en Ierland; benevens eene beschryving van een grooten zee-polyp, in den zomer van't jaar 1753, by den Noord-Pool door de walvis-vangers gevonden. Uit het Engels vertaald door Jan Tak. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1756. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt (top of spine rep.). With title printed in red and black, handcoloured engraved frontispiece (marine scene) and 39 handcoloured engraved plates after Ehret. XVI,118 pp. € 950,00 € 950,00

First and only Dutch edition, first published in London in 1755: Essay towards the natural history of the corallines. - 'Ellis's scientific interests possessed a strong aesthetic cast. With these miniature marine landscapes, the ancestors of today's indoor aquaria, Ellis amused the Princess Dowager of Wales and the young princesses. Solander, who brought back many rare corals from the Pacific, co-operated closely with Ellis in his work' (Smith, European vision and the South Pacific, p.104). - With fine handoloured plates, the last one shows Mr. Cuff's microscope which the author used for his research. - Marginal staining in lower corner otherwise fine. Landwehr, Coloured plates, 57; Nissen ZBI,1281; Nissen BBI, 590.

One of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok

40 ERDBRINK, Gerhard R. Gützlaff, de apostel der Chinezen, in zijn leven en zijne werkzaamheid geschetst. Rotterdam, M. Wijt & Zonen, 1850. Original printed wrappers. (8),53 pp. € 55,00 € 55,00

First edition. - Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1803 - 1851) was a German missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and in Korea (1832) and he was one of the first Protestant missionaries in China to wear Chinese clothing.

The military operations at Cabul

41 EYRE, Vincent. Verhaal van de krijgsgebeurtenissen en verschrikkelijke rampspoeden van het Engelsche leger in Cabul en van de krijgsgevangenschap in Affchanistan. Naar den 3e Engelschen druk. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1843. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-label. With tinted lithographed title-page by C.W. Mieling depicting a prison in Afghanistan (stained). XVI,384 pp. € 350,00 € 350,00 First published in English The military operations at Cabul. London 1843. - 'Personal narrative of British operations against Kabul, the revolt of the Afghans, and their destruction of the retreating British forces. Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered, and the troops under Brigadier Shelton were defeated at Beymarro' (Yakushi E67). 'The journal of Lieutenant Eyre (1811-1881), Deputy Commissary of Ordinance at Kabul, traces the 1842 evacuation of Kabul by the British and their subsequently disastrous attempt to retreat to India. Seriously wounded, Eyre, his wife, and child were taken prisoner by Mahomad Akbar Khan for over eight months and were not released until September 1842 and the approach of General Pollack's forces. Eyre's journal is precise in observation' (Riddick 107). - (Age-browned). - Rare.

Guinea (Ghana), West Africa

42 FENNEKOL, W(illem) F(rederik). Proeve over de kust van Guinea; houdende eene poging tot onderzoek, hoe, en in hoeverre, dat land tot eene ware volkplanting zou kunnen gevormd worden. (Met Voorberigt van J. Immerzeel). 's Gravenhage, J. Immerzeel, 1831. Original boards. 154 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 First edition. - Plan for founding a settlement on the Dutch part of Guinea (Ghana), West Africa, to make the colony profitable again after the abolition of the slave trade; and investigation in the possibility of establishing new settlements. Fennekol was born in Guinea in 1761. Ghana was sold by the Dutch to the English in 1872. Tiele 355; Cat. NHSM I, p.205; Cardinall 530.

CHINA

43 FORGUES- DAURAND, Paul- Emil. La Chine ouverte. Aventurs d'un Fan-Kouei dans le pays de Tsin par Old Nick. Paris, H.Fournier, 1845. Contemporary half red morocco, lettered in gilt. With many wood- engravings by Auguste Borget. VI,396 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 Written by Paul-Émile Daurand- Forgues (1813 - 1883) - Some foxing as usual. Cordier, B. S., col. p.83; Lust 220: written in a lively style.

The Battle of the Dogger Bank

44 FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Joannes le. De zeetriumph der Bataafsche vryheid, of Doggersbank bevochten den 5den van oogstmaand 1781. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1782. 2 volumes. Original boards, spines renewed with marbled paper, uncut. With fine large folding engraving depicting the seabattle by Zoutman and Kinsbergen, memorial picture for Bentinck, 2 historical scenes by Vinkeles after Buys, and 3 plates of medals in baroque borders (1 folding) by Van der Meer jun. (2),40,256; (2),.257-464, (10) pp. € 275,00 With armorial bookplates. - In 1783 followed Nodige bylagen. - The Battle of the Dogger Bank was a naval battle that took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in the North Sea, contemporaneously related to the American Revolutionary War, the Dutch had for several years been supplying the Americans and shipping French supplies to the Americans, in support of the American war effort. It was a bloody encounter between a British squadron under Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and a Dutch squadron under Vice Admiral Johan Zoutman, both of which were escorting convoys. Casualties on both sides were high, the Dutch celebrated the battle as victory. Cat. NHSM II, p.1040.

45 FRENCH BATTLE-FLEET. Verzeichnuss der Frantsösischen Kriegs- Schiffe/ wie alt dieselbige seyen/ von ihrer Ladung/ Geschüts/ Mannschafft/ und derselben Befehlshaber. (No pl., ca. 1670). Broadside. Ca. 38 x 30 cm. € 350,00 € 350,00 Inventory of the French battle-fleet giving the names of the ships and towns of construction, date of construction (between 1641 and 1669), burden, number of guns and crew. - (Blank margin skilfully restored).

One of the earliest accounts by a Russian woman writer

46 FREYGANG, Wilhelm & Frederika von. Brieven over den Kaukasus en Georgie, en verslag van eene reis in Perzie in 1812. Uit het Fransch oorspronkelijke der reizigers zelve den heer Wilhelm van Freygang en deszelfs echtgenoote. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1817. Contemporary half calf (top of spine sl. damaged). With engraved view on title-page after De la Belle by D. Veelwaard and engraved folding map by D. Veelwaard. VIII,340 pp. € 525,00 € 525,00 First Dutch edition, first published in Hamburg in 1816: Lettres sur le Caucase et la Géorgie suivies d'une rélation d'un voyage en Perse en 1812. - The correspondence sent by Frederika Afanas'eva von Freygang's (nee Kudriavskaia) to her husband contains an account of the journey to the Caucasus in the years 1811-1812. It is one of the earliest accounts by a Russian woman writer. The second part of the book, by Frederika Freygang's husband Wilhelm, is a historico-political account of the Transcaucasus region compiled from notes taken in the field. - (Age-browned). Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe 113; Catalogue Russica F761; Miansarof p.348;

Wilson p.76 (not the Dutch ed.); Not in Tiele.

Neglect of duty during a seabattle

47 GERRITSZ, Commer - Pieter van CAMPEN. Waerschouwinge, omme te ontdecken ende apprehenderen den capiteyn Commer Gerritsz, ende den lieutenant Pieter van Campen. De Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt/ doen te weten, alsoo wy in ervaringe komen/ dat den capiteyn Commer Gerritsz, ende den lieutenant Pieter van Campen, beschuldicht werdende over wan- devoiren/ op haer respectivelijck gepleecht in het jonghst-voorgevallen ghevecht ter zee/ zijn latiterende. ('s Gravenhage), 1665. Broadside, with large initial woodcut. Ca. 23 x 27 cm. € 450,00

Arrest warrant issued on behalf of the state government, authorizing the arrest and detention of captain Commer Gerritsz and Pieter van Campen because of neglect of duty during the last seabattle. - Very rare. Not in Knuttel.

GIBRALTAR

48 PLACAAT. De Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden .. doen te weeten .. dat niemand van de ingezeetenen deeser lande hem verstoute/ om aan de stad (Gibraltar) eenige hulpe met oorlog- of mondbehoeftens toe te brengen .. 's Gravenhage, Isaac Scheltus, 1779. Broadside with woodcut coat of arms of the States General, lion with sword and 7 arrows, in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes and woodcut initial. € 125,00 € 125,00 Official embargo to cooperate with Gibraltar. Not in Knuttel.

CANARY ISLANDS

49 GLAS, George. The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands: translated from a Spanish manuscript, lately found in the Island of Palma. With an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants. To which is added, a description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c. London, R. and J. Dobsley & T. Durham, 1764. 4to. Contemporary half calf (rebacked with the original spine laid down), spine gilt. With 3 engraved maps (1 folding). (8),VIII,368 pp. € 1.500,00

First edition; with armorial bookplate of Thomas Hubert Barclay. - 'The manuscript translated by Glas was written by Juan de Abreu de Galindo. Glas was educated for a physician but he followed the sea as a profession instead. He was an intelligent observer, with some literary and scientific attainments. His translation of the Spanish account is considered fairly good, and his own description of the Canary Islands have considerable merit. He attempted to make a settlement on the coast of Africa between Cape Verde and Senegal. Later he was imprisoned by the Spaniards at Teneriffe for contraband trading, and to cap the series of misfortunes he was killed in a mutiny on board ship while returning home' (Cox I, p.384). - A few pages browned otherwise a fine copy. - Rare.

'A little-known classic of travel'

50 GRAHAM, R(obert) B(ontine) Cunninghame. Mogreb-El-Acksa. A journey in Morocco. London, W. Heinemann, 1898. Original cloth (spine discoloured). With portrait of the author in native dress and map. XI,323 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 First edition. - Cunninghame Graham's trek into the Moroccan interior beyond Marrakesh is a classic example of British adventure travel. His purpose was to reach the forbidden city of Tarudant, where it was claimed no Christian had ever set foot, and which he attempted while variously disguised as a Turkish doctor and a sheikh from Fez. In the end, the mission was a failure: halfway to his goal, Cunninghame Graham was captured and held prisoner for four months in the medieval castle of Kintafi in the Mountains. - 'A little-known classic of travel' (DNB).

CHINESE-DUTCH DICTIONARY

51 GROSSÉ, P.E. Practisch Chineesch-Nederlandsch woordenboek volgens klanken en sleutels. Tien-Peiping, Peiyang Press, 1935. Original half cloth. V,182,174 pp. - Rare. € 175,00 € 175,00

In the Far East

52 GUINNESS, (Mary) Geraldine. Från fjårran Östern. Intryck från missionsfåltet i Kina. Utgifna af hennes syster, med förord af Hudson Taylor. Stockholm, E.J. Erman, (1891). Contemporary cloth, original pictorial frontwrapper preserved, spine lettered in gilt. With 30 woodengravings. VIII,136 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00

Swedish edition of: In the Far East. Letters from Geraldine Guinness in China, London 1889. The book was edited by her sister Lucy Evangeline Guinness. Geraldine Guinness (1862-1949) married Frederick Howard Taylor, the son of the founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor. Theakstone, Vicorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.118.

JACOB HAAFNER

'Jacob Haafner (1755-1809) was a proficient writer who produced a whole series of books on his adventures in late 18th century Malabar and Ceylon. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66- 67). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner. Haafner, whose name was spelled Hafner originally, was a German by birth who had joined his father, a surgeon, in the service of the Dutch East India company' (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21).

53 HAAFNER, Jacob. Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon. 2e druk. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1826. Sm 8vo. Original printed boards (rebacked). With engraved title depicting Haafner's arrival on the island Caradival and folding plate depicting his meeting with the Jammedaar at Alamparvé after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles. VIII,268 pp. € 225,00 Second edition; first published in Amsterdam in 1806. - Travel from Madras to Ceylon in 1806. - (Margin of 1 leaf damaged with some loss of letters). Tiele 433; Cat. NHSM I, p.243; Landwehr, VOC, 347; Goonetileke 2192.

54 HAAFNER, Jacob. Reize in eenen palanquin; of lotgevallen en merkwaardige aanteekeningen op eene reize langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel. 2e druk. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1827. 2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Later half green calf, with red morocco spine labels. With 2 identical engraved title- pages depicting the author in a palanquin, 3 folding plates and 4 hand-coloured costume plates after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles (missing one of the two plates of the Devedaschie?). X,260; IV,289,(1) pp. € 375,00 € 375,00 Second edition, first published in Amsterdam in 1808. - Travels on the coasts of Orissa and Coromandel in 1808. Tiele 434; Cat. NHSM I,p. 243; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 295; Landwehr, VOC, 348.

55 HAAFNER, Jacob. Reize naar Bengalen en terugreize naar Europa. Volgens .. nagelatene papieren uitgegeven door C.M. Haafner. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822. Original boards (spine dam.). With engraved title-page with illustration depicting the tomb of Bahder Saheb on the Hooghly river, folding plate depicting the Hooghly river near Calcutta and hand-coloured plate depicting two servants, after the author by P. Velijn. XVI,415 pp. € 475,00 € 475,00 First edition. - Account of a voyage by palanquin to Bengal and the return voyage home. Tiele 437; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 299; Landwehr, VOC, 354.

56 HAAFNER, Jacob. Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. 2e druk. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1826. Sm. 8vo. Original printed boards (rebacked). With engraved title depicting Jaffnapatnam, hand-coloured plate of Modeliaar, general of the Singhalese, and 2 folding plates after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles. VIII,LX263 pp. € 375,00 € 375,00 Second edition, first published in Amsterdam in 1810. - A journey on foot through Ceylon from Jaffnapatnam to by Jacob Haafner, bookkeeper in the factory of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Nagapatnam. Tiele 435; Cat. NHSM I, p.242; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 297; Landwehr, VOC, 350; Cf. Goonetileke 2190.

Exploring the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea

57 HALL, Basil. Account of a voyage of discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo island. Philadelphia, Abraham Small, 1818. Modern boards, spine half cloth. With 2 engraved maps. 201 pp. € 395,00 First American edition, published the same year as the first English edition - This expedition took Lord Amherst's embassy to China and explored the relatively little-known East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Visits were made to Korea and the Ryukya Archipelago. Korea had been sketchilly explored by Europeans, but it was not until this 1816- 1817 expedition of the Alceste and the Lyra, under Captain Murray Maxwell and Basil Hall, that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus. On the homeward passage the Alceste was wrecked in Gaspar Strait off Sumatra (Hill p.266). - (Browned). Cordier, B.J., col. 469; Cordier, B.S., col. 3009; Hill 750; Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 802.

THE FRENCH WEST INDIES

58 HEARN, Lafcadio. Two years in the French West Indies. New York, London, Harper & Brothers, (1890). Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 44 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. 431 pp. € 150,00 € 150,00 First edition. - Containing the essay 'Midsummer trip to the tropics' and 14 essays on Martinique. 'During a trip to the Lesser Antilles in the summer of 1887, the writer of the following pages, landing at Martinique, fell under the influence of that singular spell which the island has always exercised upon strangers, and by which it has earned its poetic name - Le pays des Revenants (Preface). The author stayed for two years on the island. An appendix includes some Creole melodies.

LOP-NOR

59 HEDIN, Sven. Der wandernde See. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1937. Original cloth. With 10 maps and 151 photographic illustrations. 295 pp. € 45,00

First German edition; first published in Swedish Den vandrande sjõn. Stockholm, 1937. - Narrative of Hedin's travel to Lop-Nor, a former salt lake, now largely dried up, located between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Hess p.30.

Dictionary of the Bantu language Jaunde of South Cameroon

60 HEEPE, M. Jaunde-Wörterbuch. (Südkamerun). Unter Mitwirkung von P.H. Nekes. Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1926. 8vo. Wrappers. XIV,257 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 Hamburgische Universität. - A dictionary of the Bantu language Jaunde, spoken in the South of Cameroon.

An abolitionist novel

61 HILDRETH, R(ichard). The white slave: or, memoirs of a fugitive. A story of slave life in Virginia, etc. 10th thousand. London, Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852. Original blind-tooled cloth (sl. dam.). With wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraving on title-page and 6 wood-engraved plates. (4),302 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 First English illustrated edition. This abolitionist novel was originally published in 1836 as: The slave; or, memoirs of Archy Moore. - Sabin 31787; Work p.312.

Dictionary of disasters at sea

62 HOCKING, Charles. Dictionary of disasters at sea during the age of steam. Including sailing ships and ships of war lost in action 1824-1962. London, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1969. 2 volumes. 4to. Original blue cloth. 779 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00

First edition. - Most of the book is concerned with the loss of merchant ships in peace and war. But a great number of naval casualties are described, some in tragic detail; in fact the author has added a vast amount to the story of the sea that is to be found nowhere else (Foreword). - A fine copy.

MAGNIFICENT SET OF 17th CENTURY DUTCH SHIPS

63 HOLLAR, Wenzel. Navium variae figurae et formae, a Wenceslao Hollar in diversis locis ad vivum delinreatae & aquafortiaeri insculptae, anno 1647. (Amsterdam), , 1647. 7 (of 12) engravings (including titlepage). Ca. 14 x 23,5 cm, with wide margins. € 12.500,00

Rare set of engravings of Dutch ships by Václav Hollar (1607-1677), a Bohemian etcher, known in England as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas and in as Wenzel. He was born in Prague and died in London. Hollar was one of the best and most prolific artists of his time.

- Title page: The image depicts a busy wharf covered with cannons, crates, barrels, anchors and people. Two men are observing the stern of a large ship on which the publications title is written. Four other ships appear to be anchored, one of which is flying the VOC flag. - Navis Mercatoriae Hollandiae Societis Indicae Orientalis - De Heu van Brussels & De convoy van Mechelen with in the background a view of - Navis Mercatoria Hollandica vulgo vliet - Boyers - Navis Mercatoria Hollandica per Orientalis Navis Bellicae - Naves Mercatoriae Hollandicae per Indias Occidentales.

These engraving provides an example of the powerful naval resources available to the Dutch East India Company (or VOC). - All impressions are in mint condition.

Morocco, Madeira and the Canary Islands

64 HONDIUS, Jodocus. Fessae et Marocchi Regna. (Amsterdam, 1630). Engraved map of north-west Africa, with the Canaries and an inset of the island of Penon de Veles showing the Spanish fort off the Barbary Coast. With sailing ships and a sea monster. Ca. 35,5 x 48 cm. € 275,00 € 275,00 A decorative map of Morocco, Madeira and the Canary Islands based upon a map by Gerhard Mercator. - (Age- browned). Koeman/ Krogt, Vol.I, 8615:1A

Daniel Hougton & Mungo Park in Africa

65 HOUGHTON, Daniel; MUNGO PARK. Reize en ontdekkingen in de binnen-landen van Africa, gedaan door den majoor Houghton, en Mungo Park, beiden zendelingen der Africasche Maatschappij .. verrijkt met eenige aardrijkskundige ophelderingen van den majoor J. Rennel. Gevolgd naar het Engelsch. Haarlem, François Bohn, 1800. Original boards (sl. rubbed). With 3 folding engraved maps. X,242 pp. € 850,00 € 850,00 First Dutch edition; first published in English in the Proceedings of the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa. London 1798. - 'The African Association was founded in 1788. Its activities mark the beginning of African exploration in a systematic way, as well as the furthering of British trade and political prestige on that continent. This association was later merged into the Royal Geographical Society. The first concern of the African Association was the River Niger - where was its source and what was the direction of its flow, etc. The first four expeditions were unfortunate for the leaders, Ledyard, Lucas, Horneman, and Houghton, all of whom either died while enroute or were murdered by the fanatical Moors. The fifth, that of Mungo Park, was rich in geographical results, though he too died on his second expedition' (Cox I, p.388). This book contains the travel-accounts in Africa of Daniel Hougton (1790-91) and of Mungo Park (1795-97, his first expedition); with geographical explanation by James Rennell. - Good copy; very rare. Gay 2788 (English ed.); Not in Tiele.

From Macao and Canton through Mongolia to Lhasa

66 HUC, Régis Evariste & Joseph GABET. Reisherinneringen uit Tartarije, Thibet en China. Verhaal der missie-reis in de jaren 1844, 1845 en 1846. Arnhem, Josué Witz, 1855-57. 2 volumes. 19th century grey cloth. XIV,409; 295 pp. € 295,00 Rare Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1850 Souvenires d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine. - Record of the famous journey made between 1839 and 1852 by the Lazarist missionaries Huc and Gabet travelling from Macao and Canton through Mongolia to Lhasa. Cf. Cordier, B. S., col. 2119; Yakushi H249; Marshall 1334; Aschhoff 920; Howgego II, p.291; not in Tiele nor Cat. NHSM.

67 INDONESIA. - GEZICHTEN UIT NEDERLANDSCH INDIË aangeboden door de Amsterdamsche Maatschappij van Levensverzekeringen. (Haarlem, 1909). Oblong 8vo. Original decorated wrappers. With 15 photographic plates. € 45,00 € 45,00 Fine photographic views of Batavia, Samarang, Djokjakarta, Surakarta, Garoet, Bogor, etc. - Nice copy.

68 INDONESIA. - 3 albums with 36 printed photographs of the . (No pl., ca. 1920). 3 albums. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. Each photograph with printed title label. € 75,00 € 75,00 Views of Batavia, Wonosobo, Poentjak, Krakatau, Tambakan, Billiton, Karo, Bandjermasin, Tosari, Bandoeng, Deli, Bali, Makassar, Garoet, etc. - Fine.

One of the best descriptions of the Arabian coast of the Red Sea

69 IRWIN, Eyles. A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European travellers in the year 1777. In letters to a lady. London, J. Dodsley, 1780. 4to. Later half black calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved folding plan, 2 engraved plates (each with 2 views) printed in sepia, and 3 folding engraved maps. XVI,400 pp. € 795,00

First edition. - Irwin was born in Calcutta and served with the East India Company. He left India in 1777 for England, when his ship was captured by pirates. From Cossier he was forced to cross the desert to Suez and then on to Luxor, Cairo and Alexandria. It took him eleven months to reach England. In the autumn of 1780 he returned to India as a senior merchant and his route was again overland, but this time via Aleppo, Baghdad, and the Persian Gulf. Includes two poems by Irwin 'Ode to the dessert' and 'Ode to the Nile'. - One of the best descriptions of the Arabian coast of the Red Sea at the time. - (Age-browned). Blackmer Collection 865; Atabey Collection 609; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.325.

70 ITALY. - Tegenwoordigen toestand van het pauselyke hof nevens alle andere hoven, republyken en voornaamste steden van Italien, in verscheide missives beschreven, door seecker naukeurigh reysiger, welcke sigh in de jaren 1690, 1691, 1692 daer heeft bevonden. Overgeset uyt een noit gedruckt Frans manuscript ende tot op dese tijdt toe vervolght. Utrecht, Antoni Schouten, 1697. 4to. 3 volumes in 1. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (top of spine neatly repaired). With fine engraved title-page by I. van Vianen and 8 other engravings (2 folding). (8),223, (3); 279;109, (17) pp. € 395,00 € 395,00 First Dutch edition. - A description of Italy with observations about Florence, Luca, Rome, Naples, Padua, etc. At the end an instruction for travellers. - Tiele 1099.

71 JAPAN UND EUROPA 1543-1929. Eine Ausstellung der 43. Berliner Festwochen im Martin- Gropius-Bau. Herausgegeben von Doris Croissant, Lothar Lederrose unter Mitwirkung von Hendrik Budde, Gedeon Sievernich. Berlin, Argon, 1993. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous coloured illustrations. 621 pp. € 45,00 € 45,00

THE CHANNEL

72 JONG, Cornelis de. Reize in en door het Kanaal, in de jaren 1785 en 1786. Haarlem, Fr. Bohn, 1808. Later half cloth. With folding view of the harbour of Bordeaux and folding plate depicting a naval battle between Commodore Charles Fielding and rear- admiral Lodewijk van Bylandt, after G. Groenewegen by Vinkeles and Vrijdag. XVI,396 pp. € 195,00 € 195,00

First edition. - Voyage through the Channel in 1785 and 1786 in the Dutch brigantine Den Beschutter. - The affair of Fielding and Bylandt was a brief naval engagement off the Isle of Wight on 31 December 1779 between a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Charles Fielding, and a naval squadron of the Dutch Republic, commanded by rear- admiral Lodewijk van Bylandt, escorting a Dutch convoy. The British seized the Dutch merchantmen and conducted them as prizes to Portsmouth, followed by the Dutch squadron. (Waterstained). Tiele 556; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Roeper & Wildeman, Reizen op papier, p. 104.

The Mediterranean and Asia Minor

73 JONG, Cornelius de. Reize naar de Middellandsche Zee, in de jaren 1777, 1778 en 1779. Haarlem, François Bohn, 1806. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved costume plate of Milos and folding view of Gallipoli. XVIII,293,(1) pp. € 550,00

First edition. - The first voyage (1778 - 1779) to the Mediterranean by the Dutch naval-officer Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838), made in the ship Thetis, includes Malta, Cerigo, Zea and Negroponte to Constantinople and Asia Minor. - (Some waterstaining at the end). Tiele 552; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Atabey Collection 620; Roeper & Wildeman, Reizen op papier, p. 104.

The Mediterranean with long description of Algiers

74 JONG, Cornelius de. Tweede reize naar de Middellandsche Zee, gedaan in de jaren 1783, 1784 en 1785. Haarlem, François Bohn, 1807 Contemporary half green morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 engraved folding plates of Algiers and Minorca. XVI,431 pp. € 550,00 € 550,00 First edition. - The second voyage (1783 - 1785) to the Mediterranean by the Dutch naval-officer Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838), made in the ship Prins Willem in command by Cornelis van Gennip to the Mediterranean, includes long description of Algiers. - (Some library stamps). Tiele 553; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Atabey Collection 620; Roeper & Wildeman, Reizen op papier, p. 104.

Beautiful harbour-views with a variety of Dutch sailing-ships

75 JONG, Dirk de & Matthias de SALLIETH Atlas van alle de zeehavens der Bataafsche Republiek, die van Batavia en Onrust. Mitsgaders de afbeeldingen van de haring visschery en de walvisch vangst. En met vermelding van vele bijzonderheden, betreffende den ouden en lateren toestand der Nederlandschen koophandels, visscherijen, trafieken en fabrieken beschreven door Cornelis van der Aa. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1805. Folio. Contemporary half calf (hinges very sl. dam.). With engraved titlepage and 31 double-page views of Dutch harbours and roadsteads, with a great variety of sailing-ships, mostly in a stiff breeze, including the harbours of Batavia and Onrust in the Dutch East-Indies and two views of herring-fishery and whaling, with captions in French and Dutch. 135 pp. € 11.500,00

With the bookplate of E. Therard Kennedy. - First edition was issued in 1802.This second edition was issued for the first time with text by Cornelis van der Aa. Beautiful harbour-views with a variety of Dutch sailing- ships of Batavia, Onrust, Rotterdam, Hellevoetsluis, Goedereede, Den Briel, Dordrecht, Maaslandsluis, Vlaardingen, Schiedam, Delfshaven, Amsterdam, Texel, Den Helder, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, Medemblik, Edam, Middelburg, Rammekes, Vlissingen, Zieikzee, Veere, Brouwershaven, Harlingen and Stavoren. - (Some small stains in margin of a few lvs.). - A fine copy with wide margins and strong impressions of the plates.

Cat. NHSM I, p.319.

'The most authentic history of the Dutch marine

76 JONGE, Johannes Cornelis de. Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche zeewezen. 2e druk. Vermeerderd met de nagelaten aanteekeningen .. en uitgegeven onder toezicht van J.K.J. de Jonge. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1858 - 1862. 6 volumes in 5 (including index volume). Original half cloth (rebacked with the original spines mounted), with the original printed wrapper mounted on front. With 5 engraved title-pages, 14 maps and plates (mostly folding) and 45 portraits (foxed as usual). € 375,00

Second and best edition. - 'The most authentic history of the Dutch marine, founded entirely on documents of the Royal Archives. It is the more important as many of these documents were consumed, after the publication of the work, in the great fire of 1853, which destroyed a part of the Archives. Its value for the American collector needs not to be specified, as it contains very ample material for the history of the West-India-Company, the early expeditions to America, the wars with the Spaniards and Portuguese there, and the transmarine colonies. Many of the fine portraits are taken from old pictures, drawings, and very rare plates, not known before' (Muller, America, p.87). - A fine set. Cat. NHSM I, p.353; Sabin 36635.

Satirical sketches of Parisian life

77 JOUY, Victor Joseph Etienne de. De Kluizenaar van de Chaussée-d'Antin (een voornaam oord van Parijs), of opmerkingen over de Parijsche zeden en gebruiken, in het begin der negentiende eeuw. Naar het Fransch, met ophelderende aanteekeningen van den schrijver. Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1813. Original boards. XII,278 pp. € 65,00 € 65,00 Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (1764 - 1846), received at the age of eighteen a commission in the army, and sailed for South America in the company of the governor of Guiana. He abandoned his early military career for a successful literary one. From 1811 to 1814 de Jouy published in the weekly Gazette de France a series of satirical sketches of Parisian life, later collected under the title of L'Hermite de la Chaussee d'Antin, which was warmly received and made his name as a journalist. - (Frontispiece missing; some annotations). Scheepers II, 630; Cf. Sabin 36769.

Images of Light and Shadow from Java's interior

78 JUNGHUHN, Franz Wilhelm. Licht- en schaduwbeelden uit de binnenlanden van Java. Over het karakter, de mate van beschaving, de zeden en gebruiken der Javanen; over de invoering van het Christendom op Java, het bezigen van vrijen arbeid en andere vragen van den dag. Verhalen en gesprekken, tusschen de gebroeders Dag en Nacht , verzameld op reizen door gebergten en bosschen, in de woningen van armen en rijken. 4e herziene druk. Amsterdam, F. Günst, 1866. Later cloth, with book label 'boekbinder Hamim in Buitenzorg'. With lithographed portrait. 410 pp. € 225,00

Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864) was a co-founder of the Dutch freethinkers' association. He expounded his views in the anonymous publication of Images of Light and Shadow from Java's interior, first published in 1854. The book created a lot of bad feeling which impeded but could not prevent its appearance in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands Indies, the book was what we would now call a best seller. Junghuhn's book was prohibited in Austria and in several German states and principalities because of its alleged 'denigrations and vilifications of Christianity' (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.69). - (Margin last leaf repaired with loss of some letters). Cat. KITLV p.256; Buur 53; Tiele 573 (note).

Scenes from the valleys of Piedmont

79 KAMPEN, Nicolaas Godfried van & Klaas SIJBRANDI. De valleijen der Waldenzen, geschied- en aardrijkskundig geschilderd. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, (1840). 4to. Original half red cloth. With steelengraved title-page after W.H. Bartlett by R. Wallis, folding map and 70 steelengraved plates after W.H. Bartlett, J.D. Harding by G. Richardson, J.T. Willmore, J.C. Bentley. H. Adlard, R. Wallis, S. Fisher, a.o.VI,206,(2) pp. € 275,00

The valleys of Piedmont: Turin, Pignerol, Luzerne, St. Jean, La Tour, Castelluzzo, Angrogna, Rora, St Martin, Clusone, Perosa, Pragelas, Dauphiné and Ban de la Roche. - (Light age-browned).

Account of the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin.

80 KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctische Fahrten und Entdeckungen der zweiten Grinnell-Expedition zur Aussuchung Sir John Franklin's in den Jahren 1853, 1854 und 1855. 2. vermehrte Auflage. Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1859. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt. With folding map and many wood-engravings throughout. XII,288 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 Malerische Feierstunden. - First American edition published in Philadelphia in 1856 Arctic explorations In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent Kane participated in two Arctic explorations and by the time of his death in 1857 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors' (Stam, Books on ice, p.39). Account of the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. - (Foxed; library stamp on title-page). Cf. Arctic Bibl. 8383.

‘The best-known of all books by Victorian and Edwardian women travellers’

81 KINGSLEY, Mary Henrietta. Travels in West Africa. Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons. 2nd edition, abridged. London, Macmilland and Co., 1898. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With photographic illustrations and plates. XX,541 pp. € 150,00 € 150,00 First published in 1897. - 'This is arguably the best-known of all books by Victorian and Edwardian women travellers. She travelled in the forests of Africa dressed much as she would have done at home' (Theakstone p.153). 'The author made an ascent of Mount Cameroon by a new route in 1895, during the course of an enterprising expedition, vividly described in her book' (Neate K26). 'The two travel accounts she produced were immediate best sellers, both for their serious scientific content and their exuberant raciness. They are masterpieces' (Robinson p. 138).

A lively description of Persia

82 KOTZEBUE, Moritz von. Reis naar Perzie met het Russisch keizerlijk gezantschap in den jare 1817. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. 's Gravenhage, Weduwe J. Allart en Comp., 1819. Contemporary half calf (extremities of spine damaged). With finely hand-coloured engraved title-page and 3 folding aquatint plates by W.H. Hoogkamer. XVI,264 pp. € 395,00 € 395,00

First Dutch edition; first published in Weimar in 1819 Reise nach Persien mit der russisch kaiserlichen Gesandtschaft im Jahre 1817. - Moritz von Kotzebue (1789- 1861), Russian/Estonian army officer and traveller, accompanied general Jermoloff during the peace negotiations in Persia. He kept an informative journal of this embassy and gives a lively description of the people of Persia. - (Stained). Wilson p.121; Engelmann I, p.143 (German edition of 1819); Muller, Bibl. Neerl.- Russe, 206; Catalogue Russica K1106; Howgego II, p.329; Not in Tiele.

83 KUYPER, Henriette Sophia Suzanna. Een half jaar in Amerika. Rotterdam, D.A. Daamen, (1907). Original cloth. (6),450 pp. € 45,00 € 45,00 First edition. - Dutch travelogue on America by Jetta Kuyper (1870 - 1932) daughter of the politician Abraham Kuyper. She visited Russia and in 1905 America, this visit opened her eyes to the role of women in society. There she gave lectures and spoke at meetings. For her time she was an emancipated woman and a proto-feminist.

Circumnavigational voyage of the Nassau Fleet to the western coast of South America with the objective to hunt down Spanish silver ships leaving Peru

84 L'HERMITE, Jacques. Journael van de Nassausche vloot/ ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aerd-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen onder 't beleydt van den admirael Jaques 'LHeremite, ende vice-admirael Gheen Huygen Schapenham, inde jaren 1623, 1624, 1625 en 1626. Noch is hier by gevoegt een beschrijvinge vande regeeringe van Peru, door Pedro de Madriga gekozen tot Luna, als mede een verhael van Pedro Fernandez de Quir, aengaende de ontdeckinge van't onbekent , sijn grooten rijckdom ende vruchtbaerheyt. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgertsz, 1648. 4to. Old half vellum over marbled boards. With large woodcut with 2 ships on title- page and folding engraved plate depicting 6 views of the fleet in various bays and harbours. (2),76 pp. € 3950,00

The first official account of the circumnavigation was published in 1626. - Jacques Le Hermite (1582-1624) commanded a punitive fleet of eleven ships and 1637 men to the coasts of South America with the objective of clearing the westward route to the Pacific of Spanish and Portuguese shipping. The fleet was outfitted under the auspices of the Dutch gouvernment, the two major companies, the Dutch East India Company and the , having little interest in the Pacific route. With the flagship Amsterdam along with the Delft under vice-admiral Geen Huyghen Schapenham and with Adolph Decker, captain of marines, Le Hermite's fleet left Texel on 29-4-1623, raided the coast of Guinea, then sailed south of to the coast of Patagonia. It then passed through the Strait of Le Maire and sighted Cape Horn on 14-2-1624. While in the region the expedition discovered and anchored in the Bay of Nassau, charting the surrounding islands (including the Hermite group). In addition, it was shown for the first time that it was possible to sail northward through the Le Maire strait. After coasting South America and plundering a few Spanish settlements, the fleet continued across the Pacific and was eventually disbanded at Batavia. Le Hermite, already a sick man at the time of the outward voyage, died at Callao in Peru and was buried on San Lorenzo Island near Lima. Command passed to Schapenham, whose article contains details of the latter section of the voyage (Howgego p.615). This account is combined with a description of Peru by Pedro de Madriga, an account of an English expedition to Guyana in 1596 (Kort-journael, gedaen naer het gout-rijck coninckrijck Guiana) and a discourse on VOC trade, none of which appeared in previous printings. - A very nice copy with the bookplate of The Cruising Association. Tiele 667; Tiele, Mémoire, p.78; Landwehr, VOC, 250; European Americana II, p.491; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, III,1 p.449.

The arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers

85 LAAN, Adolf van der & Siewert van der MEULEN. 'T Binnen seylen der Groenlands vaarders. - La navigation des pecheurs dans le port. - Il veleggiare dei pescatori nel porto. - Das Seeglen der Grönlands Fahren in dem Hafen. (Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750). Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 29,5 x 40 cm. € 275,00

Optical whaling print depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers. - (Cut short; sl. soiled).

Ingalls 147; Cf. Brewington 86.

RUSSIA

86 LACROIX, Fredéric. Les mystères de la Russie, tableau politique et moral de l'empire Russe. Ouvrage rédigé d'après les manuscrits d'un diplomate et d'un voyageur. Paris, Pagnerre, 1845. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With 30 steel- engraved plates. 472,(4) pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 From the contents: Histoire, Biographie, Statistique, Politique, Législation, Administration, Religion, Institutions, Armée, Marine, Industrie, Finances, Commerce, Agriculture, Moeurs publiques et privées, L'empereur et sa familie, etc. - Some foxing, otherwise a fine copy. Catalogue Russica L58; Vicare IV, 809.

SURINAME & SLAVERY

87 LANS, W.H. Bijdrage tot de kennis der kolonie Suriname. 's Gravenhage, Nederlandsche Maatschappij van Schoone Kunsten, 1842. Original printed green wrappers with woodengraved coat of arms on front cover and a sailing vessel on back cover. (spine rep.). With several nice wood- engravings in the text. IV,195,(10) pp. € 225,00 € 225,00 Original edition. - Contributions to the knowledge of Surinam; several chapters dealing with slavery. 'In 1842 gaf Lans in een kleine en decoratief bedoelde illustratie in zijn boek Bijdragen tot de kennis der kolonie Suriname het zware werk tussen het manshoge suikerriet weer als een middagje schoffelen in de moestuin' (Kolfin, Van de slavenzweep en de muze, p.70). - (Some foxing). Tiele 642; Sabin, 38932; Muller, America, 3058; Suriname-Catalogus UB Amsterdam 3878; Work p.268.

Controversy between Robert Edwin Peary & Frederick Cook

88 LEAL DA GAMARA, Tomás. Le Pôle Nord. Paris, 1909. Original pictorial wrappers. With satirical drawings (some coloured) by Tomás Júlio Leal da Câmara (1876-1948). (16) pp. € 35,00 € 35,00 L'Assiette au Beurre. - Issue of this famous satirical magazin dealing with the controversy between Robert Edwin Peary and Frederick Cook. Peary, an American explorer, claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. His claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook, who said he got there a year earlier. Both claims were widely debated in newspapers until 1913. Modern historians generally think Cook did not reach the pole.

The Kanak people of New Caledonia

89 LEENHARDT, Maurice. Notes d'ethnologie Néo-Calédonienne. Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth. With 2 folding coloured maps, 36 plates (4 in colours) and 48 illustrations. VIII,340 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 The protestant pastor to the Kanak people of New Caledonia, Leenhardt, spent more than 30 years of his life to the study of their culture. He was the founder of oceanic ethnology and established the Société des Oceanistes in 1927.

Rare ecclesiastical history of Africa.

90 LEYDECKER, Melchior. Historia ecclesiae Africanae illustrata, qua ecclesiae Africanae origo, status, variaque illius fata & interitus exponuntur, et de illius principiis, fide, cultu, libertate, & pugna praecipue cum schifmaticis Donatistis differitur pro ecclesiae reformatae veritate & libertate. Ultrajecti, apud viduam Guiljelmi Clerck, 1690. 2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. With 2 titles printed in red and black and folding engraved map of North Africa. (232), 34,(6); (28),691,(9) pp. € 1250,00 € 1.250,00 First edition. - History of the African church by the eminent protestant Melchior Leydecker (1642-1721), born at Middelburg. He became pastor in the province of Zealand in 1662, and was appointed professor at Utrecht in 1678. - Rare ecclesiastical history of Africa.. Gay 307; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.384; Playfair, Algeria, p.144.

One of the most important books relating to early trade with Asia and the East Indies

91 LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Itinerarium, ofte schip-vaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien. - Reys-gheschrift van de navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten. - Beschrijvinge vande gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, en tegen over de Cabo de St. Augustijn in Brasilien ... Amsterdam, Everhardt Cloppenburch, 1644. 3 volumes in 1. Folio. Contemporary blindtooled vellum with ties, hinges skillfully repaired, in slipcase. With 3 engraved titles, engraved portrait and 42 double-page or folding maps and plates, all handcoloured. (12),160; 147; 82,(8) pp. € 65000,00 € 65.000,00

First published in 1595-1596. - Van Linschoten (1563-1611) obtained first-hand information on the Portuguese routes to Africa and Asia during his voyages to East Asia as a clerk of the newly appointed Portuguese archbishop of Goa, the capital of Portuguese India. After his return in his hometown Enkhuizen in 1592, the publication of his navigational data was a crucial element in breaking the 16th- century monopoly enjoyed by the Portuguese in the East-Indian trade and the subsequent successes of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Van Linschoten's Itinerario played a crucial role in shaping the picture that the Dutch had of Asia around 1600 (Zandvliet, The Dutch encounter with Asia 1600-1950, p.15).

Linschoten's books are partly a compilation of information collected from Portuguese and Spanish documents, and partly the result of personal experience.They had considerable success and were used for a century as a guide for navigators of all nations (Borba de Moraes I, p.490). - 'Linschoten's work may be considered either a description of the Portuguese East by an interested outsider or the first of the great Dutch works which helped to stimulate the early Dutch voyages to the East' (Lach p.182). The first part, Itinerarium, relates Linschoten's experiences during more than a decade in the East Indies. It contains the sailing routes to the East Indies and the Portuguese establishments in India, the Spice Islands, and southeast Asia. The second part, Reys-geschrift, provides sailing directions for the East Indies, as well as for Brazil and the West Indies. Containing the first Dutch description of the Cape Route and navigation instructions for the Indian Ocean and he South Chinese Sea. The third part, Beschrijvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, describes the coast of West Africa and South Atlantic navigation, as well as Brazil. - A classic sailing manuel for Indiamen on Asia, one of the most important books relating to early trade with Asia and the East Indies and a masterpiece of cartographic printing. Tiele 682; Tiele Mémoire, p.101; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, pp. 198-204; Sabin 41363.

THE FAR EAST SQUADRON .

92 LOIR, Maurice. L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet. Paris, Nancy, Berger-Levrault et Cie., 1894. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. With 10 maps and many illustrations and plates by M. Brossard de Corbigny. VIII,324 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First published in Paris in 1886. - Anatole- Amédée-Prosper Courbet (1827-1885) was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the campaign (1883-1886) and the Sino-French War (1884- 1885). From the contents: Après la sortie d'Hanoï; Bombardement de Thuan-an; Convention de Tien- Sin; Le combat naval de Fou-Chéou; Le descente de la Rivière Min; Occupation de Kelung; Le blocus de Formose; Affaire de Shei-poo; Pris des Iles Pescadores; Mort de l'amiral Courbet; Le traité de paix. - A very fine copy. Polak 6088.

93 LUBBOCK, Basil. The last of the windjammers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1927-1929). 2 volumes. Original blue cloth gilt. With numerous plates and plans. XIV,518; XV,443 pp. € 225,00 € 225,00 First edition (vol. I in second impression). - A windjammer is a type of sailing ship with a large iron hull, usually used for cargo in the nineteenth century until the 1930s. They were only produced from the 1870s to the 1890s and were the grandest of cargo sailing ships, with between three and five large masts and square sails, giving them a characteristic profile. - Standard work on large sailing ships.

The first Italian Arctic expedition

94 LUIGI AMEDEO DI SAVOIA, Duca degli Abruzzi. De reis van de Stella Polare. Noordpooltocht. Uit het Italiaansch vertaald onder toezicht van Maurits Snellen. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1903). Original pictorial cloth. With 2 maps (1 folding), 2 folding panoramas and many photographic illustrations and plates. (8),558,(2) pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First Dutch edition, first published in Milan in 1903 La 'Stella Polare' nel mare Artico, 1899-1900. - The Duke of Abruzzi (1873-1933) sailed with 19 men to Archangel, and thence across Barents Sea to Rudolph Island, Franz Josef Land, to winter in Teplitz Bay, and to undertake marches on the ice of the Arctic Basin in attemps to reach the North Pole. - The first Italian Arctic expedition. Cat. NHSM I, p.313-14 (English and French ed.); Arctic Bibl. 10425 (Italian ed.); Stam, Books on ice, p.61; Howgego IV, A2.

Willem Barentsz's third voyage to the Arctic

95 LUYKEN, Jan. Tocht naer Nova Zemla in den jaere 1596. (Amsterdam, 1681). Engraving by Jan Luyken. Ca. 26 x 33,5 cm. € 175,00 € 175,00 From: Bor. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen. - Attractive engraving illustrating an encounter with a walrus on 's third voyage to the Arctic in 1596. - Fine. Muller, Historieplaten, 1054 A; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen, p.15; Atlas van Stolk 979; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 3; Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 101.

The first succesful navigation of the Dead Sea

96 LYNCH, W(illiam) F(rancis). Narrative of the United States' expedition to the river Jordan and the Dead Sea. Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1849. Original embossed cloth gilt (rebacked). With 2 folding maps and 28 line-engravings. XX,508 pp. € 225,00

First edition. - The official report was not published until 1852. Lynch carried out the first succesful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. Ephesus, Smyrna and Constantinople were also visited. - (Stained throughout). Blackmer Collection 1043; Rohricht p.432; Tobler p.176.

97 (MA-KO-TSAY). Prieres des musulmans Chinois. Traduit sur l'original en Arabe en Persan Da'Aouât el Moslemin imprimé a Canton en 1876. (Traduit par R. Basset). Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1878. Original printed wrappers. With wood-engraved frontispiece. 45 pp. € 95,00 Cordier, B.S., col. 1362. € 95,00

Madras -

98 Fort St. George on the Coromandel Coast. Belonging to the East India Company of England. - Le fort St. George sur la cote de Coromandel. Appartemante a la Compagnie Angloise des Indes Orientales. London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) after I. van Ryne. Ca. 26 x 40 cm. € 875,00 € 875,00 Fine bird's-eye view from offshore of the fort in Madras, now Chennai, with many ships in the foreground. 'Madras was the Company's first fortified settlement in India; the construction of Fort St George began in 1640 and continued on and off for another 150 years. It houses all the administrative and military necessities, as well as St Mary's church (the oldest Anglican church in India), finished in 1680. The Old College, the equivalent of the Writers' Building in Calcutta, was one of the Company's few eighteenth-century buildings in the gothic style, and still stands' (Wild, The East India Company, p.52). rare view of the first major English settlement in India and the foundation stone of Chennai - Some foxing otherwise fine.

'The first account of Cook's second voyage & the first account of exploration within the Antarctic circle'

99 (MARRA, John). Journal of the Resolution's voyage, in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, on discovery to the southern hemisphere, by which the non-existence of an undiscovered continent, between the equator and the 50th degree of southern latitude, is demonstratively proved. Also a journal of the adventure's voyage, in the year 1772, 1773, and 1774. With an account of the separation of the two ships, and the most remarkable incidents that befel each. Interspersed with historical and geographical descriptions of the islands and countries discovered in the course of their respective voyages. London, F. Newbery, 1775. Contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked, spine lettered in gilt. With large folding chart, additional chart of 'Part of the the tropical discoveries of the Resolution sloop, Captain J. Cook in 1774' and 5 engraved plates. (14),328 pp. € 6.500,00

First edition. - Preceding Cook's official account by some 18 months, this was 'the first account of Cook's second voyage and the first account of exploration within the Antarctic circle' (Davidson 81). This eye-witness account was written by the Irish gunner's mate on the Resolution whom Cook had picked up in Batavia during his first voyage. It contains many events not recorded in the official account by Cook and gives the reasons which caused Sir Joseph Banks and his twelve assistants to withdraw from the expedition at the last moment. Marra made an uncuccessful attemp to desert at Tahiti on May 14, 1774, during this second voyage. With the very rare additional chart showing the track of the Resolution from Norfolk Island to the New Hebrides. This book is actually the first book published, based on first- hand knowledge, relating to the Antarctic regions and the fine plates are the first depictions of the region. - A fine copy with the rare extra folding engraved map. Beaglehole II, p.CLIII-CLV; Beddie 1270; Hill 1087; Roscove 214; Spence 758; Kroepelien 809; O'Reilly-Reitman 379; Hocken p.14; Conrad p.13; Sabin 16247

The first Australian Antarctic expedition

100 MAWSON, Douglas. Leben und Tod am Südpol. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1921. 2 volumes. Original printed boards (spines sl. faded). With 104 plates and illustrations including 5 panoramic views, 6 coloured plates and 7 maps. XVIII,292; VI,263 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First German edition; first published in English in 1915 The Home of the blizzard. - Account of the first Australian Antarctic expedition 1911- 14. Mawson (1882-1958) recruited expedition members from Australian and New Zealand Universities and had 15 professional scientists among his staff. His expedition did great work, both in geographical exploration and scientific research. A seperate party, under George F. Ainsworth, spent 23 months on Macquarie Island, and made the first detailed scientific investigations there. The first radio contact with Antarctica was made 25 September 1912. The expedition took the first aeroplane to Antarctica which crashed in Australia on the outward voyage and was used without wings as an 'air tractor' sledge. The photographs were taken by Frank Hurley. - A good copy of 'one of the most gripping Antarctic stories'. Spence 775; Headland 1456; Conrad p.208.

An early and rare ambassy to Russia

101 MEYERBERG, Augustin von. Voyage en Moscovie d'un ambassadeur, conseiller de la chambre impériale, envoyé par l'empereur Leopold au czar Alexis Mihalowics, grand duc de Moscovie. Leide, Friderik Harring, 1688. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, with rased bands. With woodcut title-vignette. 381 pp. € 795,00 € 795,00 First French edition. - The original manuscript is in Latin, an Italian translation was published in 1697. Augustin von Mayern, Freiherr von Meyerberg, a German diplomat, travelled together with Horace Guillaume Calvuccius to the Russian czar in Moscow, in 1661-1663. Mayerberg's account of his experiences contains much useful information on seventeenth century Russian manners and customs.- (Stamp partly erased from title-page; age-browned). - An early and rare ambassy. Cat. Russica M 623; Cf. Adelung 100 and Muller, Bibl. Neerl.-Russe, 888.

Lost in the Arctic, the story of the Alabama Expedition

102 MIKKELSEN, Ejnar. Drie jaar in het Poolijs. De geschiedenis van de 'Alabama' expeditie in de jaren 1909- 1912. Bewerking uit het Deensch door M. van Blankenstein. Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1913). 4to. Original cloth. With folding map and many photographic illustrations. 251 pp. € 75,00 € 75,00 First published in Danish Tre år på Grønlands østkyst. Copenhagen 1913. - Describes Mikkelsen's trip in 1909, after his return he found the wreck of the Alabama and was forced to endure another two winters on the Greenland coast till his rescue in 1912. Arctic Bibl. 11438; Howgego III M39.

Life in China

103 MILNE, William Charles. La vie réelle en Chine. Traduite par André Tasset avec une introduction et des notes par M.G. Pauthier. Paris, Hachette et cie., 1858. Later half cloth. With 3 folding maps. XXVIII,548 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00

First French edition; first published in London in 1857: Life in China. - William Charles Milne (1815- 1863) was a missionary to China.With the establishment of British Legation in Peking, Milne served as a tutor for the interpreters in the British civil service. From the contents: Western notions of life in China, Real Chinese life at Ningpo, A glance at life in the interior of China, Shanghai, State and prospects of China. Cordier, B.S., col. 88.

Through the Russian parts of Asia

104 MOSER, Henri. A travers l'Asie centrale. La steppe Kirghize, le Turkestan Russe, Boukhara, Khiva, le pays des Turcomans et la Perse. Impressions de voyage. Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, (1885). 8vo. Original decorated red cloth gilt, a.e.g. With folding map, 16 heliotypes and ca. 170 illustrations (several full-page), mostly after E. van Muyden. XI,463 pp. € 375,00 € 375,00 First edition. - Moser's knowledge of the area earned him a place, in 1882, in the suite of General Tchernaieff, who was going to Tashkent as the Czar's governor general. From Tashkent, Moser continued to Samarkand and Bukhara, sailed down the Amu Darya River on a boat to Khiva, crossed the Karakum Desert to Ashkabad, and then made his way via Bojnurd to Teheran, and across the Caspian to the Caucasus, the Black Sea and finally, in 1883, Istanbul. A fine illustrated travel-account through the Russian parts of Asia undertaken in 1882-83. - Except some foxing as usual, a very fine copy. Yakushi M262a; Hage Chahine 3316.

SUMATRA

105 MÜLLER, S(alomon) & L(odewyk) HORNER. Reizen en onderzoekingen in Sumatra, gedaan op last der Nederlandsche Indische regering, tusschen de jaren 1833 en 1838. Bewerkt door S. Müller. 's Gravenhage, K. Fuhri, 1855. Original printed wrappers. (4),201 pp. € 225,00 € 225,00 First book edition, first published in Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië. - Exploration of Sumatra 1833- 1838. Tiele 772.

Classic account of the first Fram expedition

106 NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, captain of the Fram. London, George Newnes, 1898. 2 volumes. Original pictorial blue cloth, elaborate gilt and silver illustration to upper cover and spines, a.e.g. With portrait, coloured plate, folding coloured map (with tear), and ca. 200 photographic illustrations. XV,480; VIII,456 pp. € 225,00

Second edition; first English edition was published in Westminster in 1897. - Classic account of the first Fram expedition 1893-96, a remarkable achievement in polar exploration. Contains descriptions of the voyage from northern Norway July 1893, across the Kara Sea to the New Siberian Islands and the drift thence across the polar sea, September 1893 - March 1895. Includes account of Nansen's and Johansen's sledge journey toward the North Pole, their wintering on Franz Josef's Land and the trip home, March 1895 - August 1896, with excerpts from Nansen's diary and a supplement by Otto Sverdrup on the Fram's drift in the ice, March 1895 - August 1896. He reached the farthest north latitude yet attained by man. This great journey received world-wide acclaim and brought him many international honours . After the First World War Nansen entered international politics and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 (Printing and the Mind of Man 384). - A worldwide bestseller in a spectacular cloth binding.. Arctic Bibl. 11983; Howgego IV, N3; Stam, Books on ice, p.66.

107 NANSEN, Fridtjof. Fram over Polhavet. Den Norske Polarfaerd 1893-1896. Med et tillaeg af Otto Sverdrup. Kristiania, H. Aschehoug & Co, 1897. 2 volumes. Contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With portrait, coloured plate, 3 folding coloured maps, and ca. 200 photographic illustrations and plates. (12),526; (8),553 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 First Norwegian edition; the English edition

was published as Farthest north the same year.

The second voyage to the East Indies under Jacob van Neck

108 NECK, Jacob Cornelis van. Journael van de tweede reys gedaen by den heer admirael Jacob van Neck, naer Oost-Indien, met ses scheepen in den jare 1600. Verhalende al't gedenckwaerdighste dat haer op de reyse is voor gevallen .. Amsterdam, G.J. Saeghman, (1663). 4to. Later boards. With large woodcut on title-page, full-page woodcut by C.S. Vichem on verso of title- page, 3 fine woodcuts and 4 engravings in text (6 within two ornamental woodcut side borders). 32 pp. € 2850,00 € 2.850,00 First and only separate edition of the second voyage to the East Indies under command of Jacob van Neck, according to the journals of Roelof Roeloffz and Cornelis Claesz. The fleet of six vessels split up near Annabon. Three vessels under Van Neck reached Bantam in March 29, 1601. They visited the Moluccas, Macao and Patani, and returned in July 15, 1603. The other three vessels under Cornelis van Foreest reached Bantam in August 9, 1601. Foreest returned with the ship Dordrecht. The two other vessels under command of Gaspar Groefbergen went to Cambodia, Cochinchina, etc., and returned to Bantam January 27, 1604. - (Title-page foxed). - Rare chapbook edition. Tiele 789; Tiele, Mémoire, 146; Landwehr, VOC, 252,5; not in Cat. NHSM; Lach & Van Kley III, pp. 463-464;

NEGRO-ENGLISH

109 Neger-Engelsch-Hollandsche samenspraken voor Suriname. Verbeterde druk. Paramaribo, C. Kersten & Co., 1899. (Frontwrapper missing). 50 pp. € 65,00 € 65,00 First published in 1864. Suriname-Cat. Univ. Amsterdam 4716; Voorhoeve & Donicie 110.

Adriaan David van der Gon Netscher (1811-97), a coffee and sugar planter in the West Indies, published several pamphlets concerning slavery in Surinam. His reflection of October 25 1858 addressed to the States General was published a few years before the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands (1862).

110 NETSCHER, Adriaan David van der GON. Beschouwing van het op den 25e october 1858, aan de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal voorgesteld ontwerp van wet ter afschaffing der slavernij in Suriname, voornamelijk ter aanwijzing der noodzakelijkheid om eene gelijktijdige en voldoende immigratie door wetsbepalingen mogelijk te maken en te verzekeren. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders Belinfante, 1859. Original printed wrappers. 50 pp. € 225,00 € 225,00 (Small library stamp on title-page). Sabin 52348; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 2281

111 NETSCHER, Adriaan David van der GON. De opheffing van de slavernij en de toekomst van Nederlandsch West-Indie. October 1862. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders Belinfante, 1862. Original printed wrappers. 37 pp. € 225,00 € 225,00

(Small library stamp on title-page). Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 2288; not in Sabin.

112 NETSCHER, Adriaan David van der GON. Werking van de wet tot opheffing der slavernij in de Nederlandsche West-Indische koloniën, en middelen om Suriname van verder verval te redden. November 1866. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders Belinfante, 1866. Modern wrappers. 52 pp. € 225,00 € 225,00 With library stamp on title-page of the 'Littéraire Societeit, 's Gravenhage'. Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 2291; not in Sabin.

Dutch ships depict with high accuracy and in great detail

113 NOOMS, Reinier (ZEEMAN). Divers embarquements et autre. Amsterdam, Justus Danckerts, 1651-1652. Engraved titlepage and 11 (of 12) engraved maritime scenes. Ca. 8 x 17 cm. € 4.950,00

Reinier Nooms (c. 1623 - 1664), nickname 'the seaman', was a maritime painter known for his highly detailed paintings and etchings of ships. He was probably born and died in Amsterdam. He started painting and drawing in his later years, following a rough, drunken life as a sailor. It is not known how he acquired his skill as an artist. His knowledge of ships is evident from his work, ships are depicted with high accuracy and in great detail. - Het hele scala van grote vaart tot veerdienst, van Oostindiëvaarders tot Haarlemse jaagschuitjes, werd omstreeks het midden van de eeuw in enkele reeksen bestreken door Reinier 'Zeeman' Nooms. Zowel op artistiek als op scheepshistorisch gebied vormen zij een hoogtepunt in dit genre (Groot & Vorstman. Zeilschepen. Prenten van de Nederlandse meesters van de zestiende tot de negentiende eeuw, p.10). - Plate XIII: the morning after the storm and shipwreck, missing . - A fine and rare set of views, characterized by a high degree of detail and precision. Hollstein Dutch 125-1(2); The Illustrated Bartsch 127-1(2).

’First white residents in an island full of naked and painted wildmen’

114 PATON, James. John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides. An autobiography. Edited by his brother. 5th edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. Original blue cloth. With portrait (map missing). VIII,493 pp. € 45,00

First edition published in London in 1889. - John Gibson Paton (1824-1907) came to the mission station, together with his wife Mary Ann Robson, at Aneitym, New Hebrides, in 1858. The pair were soon sent on to establish a new station in the island of Tanna, the natives of which were then entirely untouched by Western civilisation. They were thus the first white residents in an island full of naked and painted wildmen, cannibals, utterly regardless of the value of even their own lives, and without any scence of mutual kindness and obligation (DNB). Ferguson 13921a.

The first British attempt to reach the North Pole since 1615

115 PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by his majesty's command 1773. London, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. 4to. Later half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With 3 folding engraved maps and 12 folding or double page engraved views and plates and 11 folding tables. VIII,253 pp. € 3500,00 € 3.500,00 First edition; with the armorial bookplate of Charles Steward. - 'Official account written by Captain Phipps, later Lord Mulgrave. The expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass, undertaken for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the northern polar regions, was blocked by pack ice of . The valuable appendix gives geographical and meteorological observations, zoological and botanical records, accounts of the distillation of fresh water from the sea, and astronomical observations. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the presence of young Horatio Nelson, as midshipsman aboard the Carcass, and his encounter with a polar bear' (Hill 1351). On board the Racehorse was the Nigerian author Olaudah Equiano. Phipps's narrative of his voyage was of considerable scientific interest and was the beginning of modern efforts to reach the North Pole. It also made an important addition to the knowledge of the natural productions of Spitsbergen. - The first British attempt to reach the North Pole since 1615. - A fine copy. Sabin 62572; JCB 1966; Chavanne 1944 (other ed.); Cox II, p.19; Stam, Books on ice, p.13.

Ponting, the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition

116 PONTING, Herbert George. Het eeuwige ijs. De Zuidpool-expeditie van Kapitein Scott. Een verhaal van den laatsen tocht naar de Zuidpool door kapitein Scott en diens tragische einde, benevens een beschrijving van het natuurleven in het eeuwige ijs. Vertaald door M.P.C. de Gruyter. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, (1924). 8vo. Original decorated cloth (spine sl. dam.). With ca. 150 photographic illustrations by H.G. Ponting. 441 pp. € 35,00 € 35,00 First edition was published in London in 1921: The great white South: being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and the nature life of the Antarctic. - Ponting was the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition. Rosove 251; Spence 925; Conrad p.183; Headland p.249.

Syria & Palestine

117 PORTER, J(osias) L(eslie). The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1877. Contemporary calf, gilt fillets, with coat of arms (High Harrogate College), spine richly gilt. With lithographed frontispiece and 6 lithographed plates. V,371 pp. € 165,00 € 165,00 First published in 1865. - Porter spent 10 years in Syria and travelled extensively throughout Syria and Palestine. Very popular description of the massive buildings to be found in Bashan and an account of his theory explaining their construction. Porter believed that the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, before its occupation by the Jewish tribes, had constructed these buildings. - An attractive copy. Blackmer Collection 1334; Rohricht p.468; Tobler p.189; Not in the Atabey

Collection.

The plates depict lively sketches of Russian, Finnish and Swedish costume and scenery

118 PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 2nd edition. London, John Stockdale, 1813. 2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With portrait, 12 sepia washed views (1 folding) and 28 aquatint costume plates (2 folding) by J.C. Stadler after the author. XI,(1),303; VIII,296 pp. € 1750,00

Second edition; first published in London in 1809. - Robert Ker Porter (1775-1842), English traveller and artist, went to Russia as historical painter to the tsar for the first time in 1804. He there gained the affections of the Princess Mary, the daughter of Prince Theodor von Sherbatov. He travelled in Finland and to Sweden where in 1806 he received a knighthood from Gustavis IV. In 1808 he accompanied Sir John Moore to Spain, and in 1811-1812 returned to Russia to mary his Princess. He was knighted by the Prince Regent in 1813. In 1817 Porter travelled back to St. Petersburg' (Howgego II, p.487- 488). 'A man of the most varied attainments, Porter was justly described as 'distinguished alike in arts, in diplomacy, in war, and in literature'. He was a splendid horseman, excellent in field sports, and possessed the art of ingratiating himself with people of every rank in life. Unlike some popular favourites, he was the idol of his own domestic circle' (DNB). His narrative includes observations and impressions of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Upsala, Stockholm, Russian and Scandinavian art collections and museums, the Russian army, law, religion, education, etc.The beautiful plates are made after drawings by the author. - Some offsetting of the plates as always, hole in blank margin of last leaf vol. I; half-title vol. II missing, otherwise a very fine copy. Abbey, Travel, 13; Tooley, Coloured plates, 382; Prideaux pp.225-227; Colas 2407; Lipperheide I, p.314;Hiler p.718; Catalogue Russica P1037; Nerhood 141. A long-term peace plan for Europe

119 PRADT, (Dominique - Dufour de). Du Congrès de Vienne, par l'auteur de l'antidote au congrès de Radstadt .. Paris, Deterville, Delaunay, 1815. 2 volumes. Original wrappers (one backwrapper missing). XIX,274; 267 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00

First edition. - The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Chapter XXVII relates to the colonies. - (Stained). Sabin 64887.

English and Dutch possessions on the West Africa coast

120 PREVOST, Antoine François. Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan Kaap Gonsalvo. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43 engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. € 950,00

Enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series edited by Prevost: Historische beschryving der reizen, volume IV-V. Detailed description of West- Africa with accounts of the English and Dutch possessions on the coasts. With fine engravings. - (Some minor foxing).

Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108.

121 PROCLAMATION BEACONAGE. De Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden .. doen te weeten .. hebben goedgevonden voor den tyd van tien jaaren onder den naam van het Borkumsche vuurgeld te doen heffen een vuur/ ton/ en bakengeld .. van die schepen alleen/ die uit deeze landen na de Oostzee en Archangel/ mitsgaders na de kleine Oost en Noorwegen vaaren 's Gravenhage, Isaac Scheltus, 1791. Broadside with woodcut coat of arms of the States General, lion with sword and 7 arrows, in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes and woodcut initial. € 125,00 € 125,00

Beaconage for the Baltic trade. - Not in Knuttel.

One of the most fantastic literary forgeries of all times

122 PSALMANAZAR, George An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan. Giving an account of the religion, customs, manners, &c. of the inhabitants. Together with a relation of what happened to the author in his travels; particularly his conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several parts of Europe ... London, printed for Dan. Brown, a.o., 1704. Contemporary panelled calf (hinges splitting but holding). With engraved folding plate showing the 'Formosan Alphabet' (with tear), and 15 (of 16) engraved plates showing costumes, money, buildings, boats etc.(margin of folding plate of the funeral sl. dam.; plate 12 missing as often and map missing) XIV,(56),327,(9) pp. € 750,00

First edition. - One of the most fantastic literary forgeries of all times. Psalmanazar (N.F.B. de Rodes ?), a native from the south of France, led the life of an adventurer. Being instructed by Jesuit tutors in the history and geography of Japan he pretended to be a native of Japan, under influence of chaplain William Innes, to render the story more plausible, this was changed into being a native of Formosa. In London he attracted at once popular interest. Psalmanazar invented his own 'Formosan' language etc., and he wrote his fictitious narration. What was not due to his own imagination he borrowed from the accounts of Varenius and Candidius. Doubt at once arose over the authenticity of his narrative, and after Innes was sent as chaplain-general to the English forces in Portugal, he felt incompetent to sustain his imposture unaided. (D.N.B.). 'Its lurid descriptions of polygamy, human sacrifice, cannibalism and infanticide caused a sensation. Allegedly written in Latin, then translated into English, it rapidly went through two editions, with a French translation at Amsterdam in 1705, and a German version at Frankfurt in 1716' (Howgego V, P35). - Age- browned. Alt-Japan-Katalog 1222; Cordier, B. S., col. 281-282; Cordier, B.J., col. 408; Lust 236; Löwendahl 290 (2nd edition); Hill 1398.

NUBIA & SUDAN

123 PUCKLER-MUSKAU, Hermann Ludwig Heinrich. Mehemed Ali en deszelfs gebied. Door den schrijver der brieven eens afgestorvenen (prins Puckler Muskau). Nubië en Sudan. Amersfoort, W.J. van Bommel, Van Vloten, 1847. Contemporary half cloth. VI,305 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 In 1846 a Dutch edition was published of the first part of this book on the dominion of Mohammed Alia dealing with Egypt: Aus Mehmed Ali's Reich. Stuttgart 1844. 'Pückler Muskau is one of the most interesting travellers of his period; he journeyed extensively in Europe and Africa. He was a keen observer and a witty and sensitive writer, ready to note all sorts of facts and impressions of men and manners, although his great interest was landscape and landscape gardening' (Blackmer 1362). 'A boastful, exuberant, miles gloriosus-like tale by this 'Prince'. A great friend and defender of Mohammed Ali' (Kalfatovic, Nile notes, 0343). Gay 2198 (French ed.); Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.145; Kainbacher p.326; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM.

124 RENARD, Léon. Les merveilles de l'art naval. Paris, L. Hachette et Cie., 1866. Sm.8vo. Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 50 woodengravings by Morel Fatio. 318 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 First edition; Bibliothèque des Merveilles. - Nicely illustrated history of shipbuiding. - (Foxed). - Polak 8103.

TORNADOES

125 REYE, Theodor. Die Wirbelstürme, Tornados und Wettersäulen in der Erd-Atmosphäre dargestellt und wissenschaftlich erklärt. Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1872. Contemporary half calf, gilt. With 4 folding maps ('Sturmkarten zum Gebrauche für Seeleute') and 30 woodengravings and lithographed plates. XVI,248 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 'Bei der Ausarbeitung dieses Buches habe ich nicht nur die Meteorologen von Fach und die gebildeten Seeleute unserer Kriegs- und Handelsmarine im Auge gehabt, sondern auch den weiteren Leserkreis, der für die Naturwissenschaften und insbesondere für Wind und Wetter Interesse hat' (Vorrede). - (Library stamp on title-page).

RHINE

126 Neues Rheinpanorama. Frankfurt a/M, P.H. Frey & Co., (ca. 1880). Original decorated cloth. Photographed leporello of the Rhine from Köln to Mainz. With 16 pp. text in German, French and English.- (One fold torn). € 275,00 € 75,00

RUSSIA - HOLLAND

127 Memorie van den Russischen envoyé tot een gemeensaam concert tusschen de neutraale mogendheeden over de sekerheid en vryheid der weederzydsche commercie en navigatie .. (No pl.), 1780. Folio. 3 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 Extract uit de Resolutien van de Heere Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, in haar vergadering genomen op Dinsdag den 4 April 1789. - Treaty between the Russians and the Dutch about commercial relations and navigation.Text in French and Dutch.

GERMANY

128 SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van't Duitsche keizerryk in't algemeen; als mede van de Opper-Saxische, Neder-Saxische, Westphaalsche, en Nederrynsche Kreitsen in't byzonder. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door M. van Goch. Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1736. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps of Germany. 12,(4),670,(10) pp. € 295,00 € 295,00 Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725- 1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. Volume VIII contains an ample description of Germany. - A fine copy. Tiele 1033.

India, Bangladesh, Birma & Ceylon.

129 SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van de koninkryken Pegu, Ava, Arrakan, Acham. Als mede van het eigentlyke India, of het ryk van den Groten Mogol, en van Malabar, Kormandel, en het eiland Ceilon. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door M. van Goch. 2e druk. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1741. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved title, 2 folding maps (India and Ceylon), and 10 engraved plates (7 folding). (8),680,(8) pp. € 425,00 Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725- 1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat alle volkeren. Volume III contains an ample description of India, Bangladesh, Birma and Ceylon. Tiele 1033; Cordier, B.I., col. 731; Goonetileke 2049.

One of the first monographs on the pigmies in Africa

130 SCHEBESTA, Paul. Among Congo pigmies. Translated from the German by Gerald Griffin. London, Hutchinson & Co., (1933). Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 3 maps and 89 photographic illustrations. 287 pp. € 75,00 € 75,00 First published in Leipzig in 1932 Bambuti, die Zwerge vom Kongo. - Paul Schebesta (1887-1967) wrote one of the first monographs on the pigmies in Africa.

German East Africa

131 SCHILLINGS, C(arl) G(eorg). With flashlight and rifle. A record of hunting adventures and of studies in wild life on equatorial East Africa. Translated by Fr. Whyte, with an introduction by H.H. Johnston. London, Hutchinson and Co., 1906. 2 volumes. Original green cloth with circular black and white pictorial decoration of an elephant embossed on front covers, top edge gilt (sl. rubbed). With 302 photographic illustrations by the author portraying a wide variety of creatures in their natural habitats. XXVII,VIII,782 pp. € 175,00

First English edition; first published in German in 1905, Mit Blitzlicht und Büchse. Neue Beobachtugen und Erlebnisse in der Wildnis inmitten der Tierwelt von Equatorial Ostafrika.. - 'The best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera .. rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds' (Introduction). Much of his photographic efforts were in the brush country near Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Njiri Swamps in old German East Africa. The author was a pioneer in night photography and captures wonderful images of predators on the prowl (Czech p.247).

The naval Battle of Gibraltar

132 SCHOTEL, Petrus Johannes. De overwinning van Jacob van Heemskerck voor Gibraltar, 25 April 1607. - La victoire par J. de Heemskerck devant Gibraltar 25 April 1607. Amsterdam, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1850. Lithographed plate, printed in 2 colours after P.J. Schotel by R. de Vries, depicting the naval battle of Gibraltar. Ca. 27,5 x 38,5 cm. € 225,00 € 225,00 From: Heldendaden der Nederlanders ter zee. - The naval Battle of Gibraltar took place on 25 April 1607 during the Eighty Years' War when a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar. During the four hours of action, most of the Spanish ships were destroyed. The Dutch lost 100 men including admiral Jacob van Heemskerk. - Fine. Cat. NHSM I, p.352; Muller, Historieplaten, 21,40: zeer fraaije werk.

The naval Battle of Lowestoft, Suffolk

133 SCHOTEL, Petrus Johannes. Zeeslag tusschen eene Nederlandsche en Engelsche vloot 13 Junij 1663. - Combat naval entre une flotte Neerlandaise et Anglaise. 13 Juin 1665. Amsterdam, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1850. Lithographed plate, printed in 2 colours after P.J. Schotel by R. de Vries, depicting the naval battle of Lowestoft. Ca. 27,5 x 38,5 cm. € 225,00 From: Heldendaden der Nederlanders ter zee. - The naval Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam attacked an English fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York forty miles east of the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England. Around three in the afternoon the duel between the Royal Charles and the Eendracht ended abruptly when the Eendracht exploded, killing Jacob van Wassenaar van Obdam and all but five of the crew. - Fine. Cat. NHSM I, p.352; Muller, Historieplaten, 21,23: zeer fraaije werk.

Russian Turkestan

134 SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900. Original half cloth (spine rep.) with pictorial front board. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. Yakushi p.348.

ALGIERS

135 SÉGUIN, Lisbeth Gooch. Walks in Algiers and its surroundings. A new edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. Original red pictorial cloth (spine discoloured). With 2 folding plans and 16 woodengravings. XII,502;32 pp. € 75,00 € 75,00 First published in 1878. - First handbook for the use of the traveller to Algiers in the English language. Lisbeth Gooch Séguin married Alexander Strahan and died in 1890. - Theakstone p.241; Playfair 3720.

EGYPT 136 SHARPE, Samuel. The early history of Egypt, from the old testament, Herodotus, Manetho, and the hieroglyphical inscriptions. London, Edward Moxon, 1836. Old half cloth. With 6 plates. VIII,172 pp. € 95,00

First edition. - Samuel Sharpe (1799-1881) was an Egyptologist and translator of the Bible (DNB). - Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.232.

SHIP'S STORES

137 LIJSTE, raeckende den voet ende ordre voortaen te practiseren in't schaffen op een schip van oorloge/ by de .. Staten Generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden gearresteert den 26. Junij 1654. (No pl.), 1654. Braodside with lage woodcut initial. € 950,00 € 950,00 List of daily food on board of a Dutch ship. - Rare.

Speke & Grant were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Eastern Africa

138 SPEKE, John Hanning. Les sources du Nil. Journal de voyage. Traduit de l'Anglais, avec autorisation de l'auteur par E.D. Forgues. 3me édition. Paris, Hachette, 1881. Original printed wrappers (sl. dam.). With 4 folding maps and 78 wood- engravings. 579 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 First published in London in 1863: Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. - John Hanning Speke (1827-64), English army officer, big game hunter, whose claim to have located the source of the Nile was proved correct after years of dispute. Speke, together with captain Grant, were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Eastern Africa. His account is one of the cornerstone books of African exploration. Ibrahim-Hilmy p.255; Czech p.260-261 (English ed.); Hess & Coger 417 (English ed.); Howgego IV, S53.

Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c.

139 SPENCER, Edmund. Reizen in Circassia en eenige naburige landen, in 1836 gedaan. Uit het Engelsch beknopt vertaald door J. Olivier, Jzn. Amsterdam, Gebroeders Diederichs, 1839. Original boards (spine rep.). With hand- coloured frontispiece. VIII,282,(6) pp. € 495,00 € 495,00

First Dutch edition; after the English edition Travels in Circassia, Krim- Tartary, &c. London 1837. - In 1829 the Ottoman Turks were forced to cede Circassia to Russia, at this time the Circassians, who are Moslems, occupied almost the entire area between the main Caucasian range, the Kuban River, and the Black Sea. Edmund Spencer travelled extensively in this area. - Rare. Cf. Blackmer Collection 1580 and Atabey Collection 1164; Catalogue Russica II, 1829; Not in Tiele, Cat. NHSM nor Landwehr, Coloured Plates.

140 STANLEY, Henry Morton. Caricature portrait. London, Vanity Fair, 1872. Chromolithographed portrait from the series Men of the day, with text 'He found Livingstone', published by the Vanity Fair Magazin. Ca. 31 x 19 cm. € 75,00 € 75,00 Fine caricature portrait of the Anglo-American journalist and colonizer in Central Africa Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone is one of the high points of African exploration using the phrase: 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume'. Stanley arrived to a heroic welcome in New York on 20-11-1872.

Stanley's last African expedition: the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

141 STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Afrikas donkere wildernissen. Tochten, ontdekkingen en ontmoetingen, opsporing van, en terugkeer met Emin Pacha. (With:) Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson. Bij Emin Pacha in de Equatoriaal-provincie. Arnhem, Nijmegen, Gebr. E. & M. Cohen, (1890-1891). 3 volumes. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth (extremities of 1 spine very sl. dam.). With 3 folding maps and numerous woodengravings. (8),X,600; (8),579; X,437 pp. € 225,00 € 225,00 First Dutch edition; first published in English in London in 1890: In darkest Africa. - Narrative of Stanley's (1841- 1904) last African expedition: the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He travelled up the Congo River and crossed Central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha (Isaak Eduard Schnitzer (1840- 1892). With the additional volume by Jephson containing his contribution to this expedition. - A fine set. - Howgego S60.

German Shandong

142 STENZ, Georg Maria. Beiträge zur Volkskunde Süd-Schantungs. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von A.Conrady. Leipzig, R. Voigtländer, 1907. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 19 plates and illustrations (some in colours). 116 pp. € 65,00 € 65,00 First edition. - Veröffentlichungen der Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde. - Georg Maria Stenz (1869 - 1928) was a Catholic missionary of the Society of the Divine Word in Shandong during the period from 1893 to 1927. - A fine copy.

Mount Lu or Lushan

143 STONE, Albert Hendrix & J.Hammond REED. Historic Lushan. The Kuling Mountains. Hankow, Arthington Press Religious Tract Society, 1921. Original black cloth. With folding map (small tear) and many photographic plates. II,106 pp. € 150,00 € 150,00 First edition. - Mount Lu or Lushan is situated in the northern part of Jiangxi province in Central Asia, it is one of the renowned mountains in the country. Lushan was a summer resort for western missionaries in China.

BALI

144 STUTTERHEIM, Willem Frederik. Oudheden van Bali. Het oude rijk van Pedjeng. Singaradja, 1929-30. 2 volumes. Original wrappers (top of spine vol. I sl. dam.). With 128 (mostly photographic) plates. 216 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 Publication of Kirtya Liefrinck-Van der Tuuk, Bali. - .Scholarly report compliled after field- research in Bali 1924-1927 about antique Hindu remains, religious stone-sculptures and architecture from the ancient priciplayty of

Pedjeng.

The siege of Jerusalem

145 TASSO, Torquato. Jerusalem delivered. An heroic poem, translated by John Hoole. London, W. Suttaby, Crosby & Co and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1809. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt fillets round sides, spine richly gilt. With engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page after R. Cook by J. Fittler. 501 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 First published in 1581: La Gerusalemme liberata. - A very popular poem recounting a largely fictionalized version of the first crusade in which christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, fought against the muslims in order to raise the siege of Jerusalem. - A nice copy.

146 THEYE, Thomas. (Ed.). Der geraubte Schatten. Die Photographie als ethnographisches Dokument. München, C.J. Bucher, 1989. 4to. Pictorial wrappers. With numerous photographic illustrations. 536 pp. € 45,00 € 45,00 'Eine Ausstellung des Münchner Stadtmuseums in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Haus der Kulteren der Welt'.

Mauritius and the Rodriguez Hurricane of 1843

147 THOM, Alexander. Onderzoek naar den aard en koers der stormen in den Indischen Oceaan bezuiden de linie, ten einde derzelver oorsprong, uitgestrektheid ..en mede gepaard gaande verschijnselen te leeren kennen; met het praktisch doel om schepen in staat te stellen de nabijheid en betrekkelijke rigting der orkanen te kunnen bepalen. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door S. van Delden. Amsterdam, C.F. Stemler, 1849. Original blue boards (spine dam.). With folding chart of the Indian Ocean and 7 folding diagrams. XVI,368 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00

English edition published in London in 1845: An inquiry into the nature and course of storms in the Indian Ocean south of the Equator, with a view of discovering their origin, extent, rotatory character, rate and direction of progression, barometric depression...for the practical purpose of enabling ships to ascertain the proximity and relative position of hurricanes. Classic work by Thom, a surgeon in the Royal County Down Regiment. Much about and the Rodriguez Hurricane of 1843. Cat. NHSM II, p.717

History of the Dutch whale and cod-fishing in the 17th and 18th century

148 THOMAS, Marie Simon. Onze IJslandsvaarders in de 17de en 18de eeuw. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche handel en visscherij. Amsterdam, ENUM, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 16 maps and 30 plates. XXXVI,320 pp. – (Thesis). € 165,00 € 165,00

A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.

149 TOLLENS, (Hendrik). Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597. Uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatchappij van Fraaije Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1822. Sm.8vo. Original wrappers. 34 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 First seperate edition. - Classic account of the search of a to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin. Cat. NHSM I, p.304.

’One of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century’

150 (TULLY, Miss). Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London, printed for Henry Colburn, 1816. 4to. Contemporary half calf, with green morocco title-label to spine. With engraved folding map and 5 fine hand-coloured aquatints. XIII,(2),370 pp. € 1.450,00

First edition; with armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold. - These letters were written by the sister or sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793. The work is particularly valuable for its details of family life in the seraglio. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family and were admitted into all the life of the seraglio. This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. - 'It is a delicious mixture of sensational subject-matter and deadpan delivery' (Robinson, Wayward Women, p.248). This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. The very attractive plates depict genre scenes and costumes. - A fine copy. Abbey, Travel, 299; Tooley, Coloured plates, 493; Blackmer Collection 1682; Atabey Collection 1241.

Fine lithographed views of Indonesia

151 VELDE, Charles William Meredith van de. Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven. Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en Zonen, (1843-45). Folio. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With engraved title-vignette depicting the palace at Bogor and 50 plates, lithographed by P. Lauters after the author. (10),87 pp. € 6950,00

Van de Velde (1818-1898) was trained as a naval officer at the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine, where he received drawing lessons from Petrus Johannes Schotel (1808-1865), one of the best known Dutch naval artists of the 19th century. The drawings for this publication were made by Van de Velde during the period when he was a midshipsman aboard the naval corvet Triton (captain-lieutenant A.C. Edeling) between April 1838 and October 1839, and between the later date and September 1841, when he was working at Batavia for the Commission for the improvement of maps and charts of Indonesia. The drawings were transferred on stone by Paulus Lauters, one of the most renowned of Belgian lithographers. They represent views in Java (including several of Batavia), Timor, the Moluccas, Celebes, Borneo and Sumatra. - (Some light staining as usual). - A fine copy. Tiele 1136; Cat. NHSM I, p.246; Bastin-Brommer N 360; Cat. KITLV I, p.3; Haks & Maris, Lexicon, p.273.

The legation of Charles Ambrose Mezzabarba to the Chinese emperor in 1720

152 VIANI, Sostegno. Istoria delle cose operate nella China da monsignor Gio. Ambrogio Mezzabarba partriarca d'Alessandria, legato appostolico in quell' imperio. Edizione seconda. Colonia, appresso Enrico Aertssens, 1740. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, with autograph title to spine. Title-page printed in red and black, with woodcut vignette. XV,256 pp. 850,00 € 850,00 Second edition; the first edition was published in Paris in 1739. - 'In 1720, Clement XI, wishing to alleviate the hardships of the Church in China, despatched to the East a new legate, G.A. Mezzabarba, Patriarch of Alexandria. On October 12, he reached Canton (Guangzhou) and secured with difficulty an audience with the Kangxi emperor, whom he appeased by promising that starting for Europe, he granted eight permissions, whereby he thought, while maintaining fully the decree of Clement XI, to remedy all hardships resulting therefrom for the converts, especially those of the better class. It was permitted to kneel down and make offerings before the amended tablets of Confucius and ancestors, as well as before the coffin of a deceased person, provided they were preceded by the necessary explanations' (Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 412). - A fine copy. Cordier, BS, col. 920; Lust 878.

European Russia

153 WALLACE, D(onald) Mackenzie. La Russie. Le pays - les institutions - les moeurs. Traduit de l'Anglais par H. Bellenger. Paris, G. Decaux et M. Dreyfous, 1877. 2 volumes. Original half cloth. III,431; 448 pp. € 75,00 € 75,00 First English edition published the same year. - Wallace's book had great success, going through several editions and being translated into many languages. He learned Russian and spent five years in Russia, from 1870-1875. 'His work is a classic treatment that examines every aspect of European Russia, with special emphasis on the rural scene' (Nerhood 302). - The standard authority on Russia before the 1917 revolution.

Vivid description of South America

154 WATERTON, Charles. Wanderings in South America, the North- West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. New edition. Edited, with biographical introduction and explanatory index, by J.G. Wood. London, Macmillan and Co., 1885. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With many wood- engravings. XVI,520 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First published in London in 1825. - Vivid description of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados, etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population. Waterton (1782-1865) was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles, ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural history of Colombia and Venezuela. - A nice copy. Sabin 102094; Hill 1833.

‘The animal world display'd’

155 WATSON, Frederick. De dierlyke wereld ter beschouwinge opengezet. Uit het Engelsch .. met merklyke verbeteringen en aantekeningen uitgegeeven door Cornelis Nozeman. Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1761. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, with red morocco title label on spine (top of spine very sl. dam.). With 33 folding engraved plates. XIV,292, (7) pp. € 450,00 € 450,00 First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1754: The animal world display'd : or the nature and qualities of living creatures described, with only 18 plates. - Much improved Dutch edition with more plates depicting various mammals, fishes and birds. - Except some very light foxing a beautiful copy. - Scarce. Nissen, ZB, p.426.

General James Wolfe & the Battle of Quebec

156 WEST, Benjamin. The death of General Wolfe. London, Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, 1776. Contemporary handcoloured engraving after Benjamin West by William Woollett. Ca. 47 x 59,5 cm. € 1.500,00 € 1500,00

General James Wolfe (1727-1759) died during his famous victory over the French at Quebec, which delivered Canada into the hands of the British. known as The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec. The engraving depicts the general surrounded by his officers and a native American warrior, with ships in the background. The original heroic painting by Benjamin West (1738-1820) of 1771 was an instant success and the engraving by William Woollett which followed was one of the most commercial successful prints ever published (Von Erffa & Staley, The paintings of Benjamin West, p.213). In death, General Wolfe gained fame as a national hero and became an icon of the Seven Years' War and British dominance in late eighteenth century North America. William Woollett's engraving was the best-known copy of West's original and became popular around the world - Mounted on linnen, occasionally faint rubbing, otherwise fine.

The Wotjaken of Udmurtien

157 WICHMANN, Yrjö. Wotjakische Sprachproben. Im Auftrage der Finnisch-Urgrischen Gesellschaft. Helsingfors, 1893-1901. 2 volumes. Original printed wrappers. XX,199; IV,200 pp. € 65,00 € 65,00 Journal de la Societé Finne-Ougrienne. - The Wotjaken live in the Russian Republic Udmurtien. Volume I: Lieder, Gebete und Zaubersprüche; Volume II: Sprichwörter, Rätsel, Märchen, Sagen und Erzählungen. Parallel Votyak and German texts.

158 WIEGER, Léon. Folk-lore Chinois moderne. Sienhsien, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1908, mounted with book label of Librairie Orientale & Amèricaine, Paris, E. Guilmoto. Original red cloth. With some illustrations. 422 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 First edition. - With parallel text in Chinese and French. Léon Wieger was a celebrated French Jesuit missionary, medical doctor and sinologist who worked at the Catholic mission in Heijan. - (Some wormholes).

159 WILHELMINA. Poetri Wilhelmina, koningin der Nederlanden. 1898. Coloured linen memorial, issued on the occasion of the inauguration of Wilhelmina, with coat of arms, flags and 5 portraits of the queen of Holland, sultan of Djokjakarta, king of Siam, Sousoehoenan of Soerakarta and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Ca.42 x 40,5 cm. € 150,00 € 150,00

FIJI

160 WILLIAMS, Thomas & James CALVERT. Fiji and the Fijians. Edited by George Stringer Rowe. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1859. Original cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 40 woodengraved plates and illustrations (2 in colours). X,551 pp. € 275,00 € 275,00 First published in London in 1858. - 'One of the outstanding works on Fiji. Reverend Thomas Williams, of Adelaide, Australia, lived as a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji for thirteen years. Reverend James Calvert, considered the 'father' of the Fiji missions, worked there for seventeen years. The preface to the first volume gives a few guidelines to the pronunciation of the Fijian language. The book contains information on the origins of the natives, their warlike tendencies, industrial produce, manners, customs, religion, and language. The enormity of the task attempted and accomplished in Fiji is a tribute to the persistent endeavors of the various missionary societies at work in the South Seas' (Hill 1885). - A fine copy.

Instruction manual for American missionaries

161 (WILSON), Thomas. The knowledge and practice of christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians .. In twenty dialogues. 19th edition. London, F.C. and J. Rivington, 1811. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf (hinges weak). (8),XXIV,280 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 First edition was published in London in 1740. - Wilson was bishop of Sodor and Man, a diocese of the Church of England. This instruction manual for American missionaries was frequently reprinted during the years 1740-1848, meant "for propagating the Gospel amongst Indians and Negroes," During a visit of London in 1735 he met James Edward Oglethorpe, British soldier, Member of Parliament and founder of the Colony of Georgia. It was the beginning of Wilson's interest in foreign mission. Sabin 104690.

Important source for Dutch diplomatic history

162 WITT, Johan de. - Resolutien der .. Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vriesland .. genomen zedert den aenvangh der bedieninge van .. Johan de Witt als raedt- pensionnaris .. 1653 .. 1668. (And:) Secrete resolutien .. 1653 .. 1668. 2 volumes. (and:) Brieven geschreven ende gewisselt tusschen .. Johan de Witt .. ende de gevolmaghtigden van den staedt der Vereenighde Nederlanden. 6 volumes. With engraved portrait after J. Houbraken. (And:) Verbael gehouden door .. H. van Beverningk, W. Nieupoort, J. van de Perre, en A.P. Jongestal, als gedeputeerden en extraordinaris ambassadeurs van de heeren Staeten Generael .. aen de Republyck van Engelandt. .. Vervullende ook de tydt en saecken die aen de brieven van .. J. de Witt en verdere ministers, omtrent de Engelsche negociatie, ontbreecken. Utrecht, Willem vande Water, 1706-17; 's Gravenhage, Hendrick Scheurleer, 1723-25.

10 volumes. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Titles printed in red and black and with woodcut vignettes. € 1.150,00

Johan de Witt (1625 - 1672) was a major figure in Dutch politics in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of globalisation made the United Provinces a leading European power during the . De Witt controlled the Netherlands political system from around 1650 until shortly before he was lynched in The Hague in 1672. The 'Verbael' deals i.a. with the relations of the Dutch Republic with America. - Important source for Dutch diplomatic history. - (Index volume missing). Sabin 98926.